Re: [opensuse] true news group? Mon, 18 Feb 2008, by uee@computer.org:

> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
> > Yes. And your problem with that is what? Do you have a specific
> > objection, or are you going to continue to feign incredulity?
> > 
> 
> Here's my list of objections from an article I wrote in Jan2006:
> 
> Web forums: I also absolutely loathe web-forums. Talk about enhancing to
> the point of failure. Or re-inventing the wheel. What was ever wrong
> with newsgroups and mailing-lists? The 5 top reasons why I hate
> web-forums:
> 
> 1. They are essentially an inferior and utterly superfluous re-invention
> of existing internet communication means - newsgroups aka usenet.
> 2. They're web-based - the interface changes just about every time you
> change forum. Add to that the entirely superfluous graphics and icons
> and what have you, and they become slow and unwieldy.
> 3. Following multiple separate forums can't be done on one screen.
> 4. There is no proper threading in forums and selective quoting is at
> best cumbersome.
> 5. They usually require that you login. Downright silly.

6. They require the constant and most obnoxious usage of a mouse,
back and forth through several painly slow pages to read, write and
set "topic" as read (delete not even possible of course). If you try
to follow a busy list like this on a forum, you'll want to kill
yourself after one evening.
7. Any discussion that is left un-replied for a short time will
immediatly be pushed way down several pages, so after the weekend,
all previous discussion have "disappeared".
8. Now way to use Score (kill) files to get rid of the Fred Millers
etc.
9. They're a single source of failure, unlike news or even mail
servers. And because they run on single machines, beyond a certain
amount of simultaneously logged in users, they become dead slow and
unmanagable.

Theo
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