LUGNET NNTP Server & Clients : 1203


Administrative / NNTP / 1203	1202 \| 1204

Subject:	Re: A Change
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.curators
Date:	Thu, 8 May 2003 21:47:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Frank Filz writes: > Orion Pobursky wrote: > Of course there are some nice advantages of the web interface (at least > over the NNTP clients I have used): > > - can easily bookmark posts > - the little dots tree (so long as the number of posts fit) that follows > the tree no matter what groups it wanders into (which can also be a > negative thing) > - quickly scan a bunch of posts > - as mentioned before, members need not authenticate posts I also like the fact that the parent group lists all the messages to it's child groups. My newsgroup program doesn't do that. -Orion

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		Re: A Change
(...) Other shortcomings of the web interface: - doesn't keep track of read/unread posts very well - doesn't allow marking a post as unread (I do this all the time when I want to return later to the post to respond) - doesn't support built in spell (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.curators)

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