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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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Date: 
Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:09:39 GMT
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Johannes 'Jojo'  Koehler wrote:

That's exactly what I never understood about the NNTP fans' fondness of
NNTP. I *can* understand why software engineers, coders and other geeky
NNTP users (sorry :-) ) use NNTP and actually prefer it over every other
form of forum. But I will never understand in which way NNTP can possibly
be better for discussions about a picture-dependent hobby like LEGO. I
want to see the pics of the MOCs! I want to see them NOW, right while
reading the story or description belonging to these pics. So what's the
big advantage in the ability of reading the stories offline if I am not
able to look at the pictures at the same time?

Because most of the discussions I follow on LUGNET don't involve many
pictures, and I can always look at those later?

Besides, one CAN tie in NNTP with other stuff, if I use my fancy newsreader
I can click on any link and the pic is opened, but I still prefer browsing
through messages with NNTP over using the web interface.

In NNTP I can immediately see if a reply is to a recent thread or one that's
been dead for months (if not years), with the web interface I first need to
open it to view the tree.

Some of the post include huge pics which IMHO sometimes aren't worth
viewing, specially if I happen to be on dialup because I'm somewhere on
location instead of at home. Web interface doesn't give me any choice, NNTP
does. And as I said earlier, NNTP is MUCH easier to search for any given
word, sentence or whatever pattern you want.
--
Jan-Albert van Ree   | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/



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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
Hello! (...) That's exactly what I never understood about the NNTP fans' fondness of NNTP. I *can* understand why software engineers, coders and other geeky NNTP users (sorry :-) ) use NNTP and actually prefer it over every other form of forum. But (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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