rfc: Bazaar forums

[Ben Finney]

"Martin Albisetti" <argentina at gmail.com> writes:

> As John said, email comes to you, which, at the current activity of
> this list, is very overwhelming.

I get the best of both worlds by using Gmane, as mentioned by many
others here. I go to the forum, but I do so using a standard messaging
protocol (NNTP) using my choice of NNTP client.

My main complaint against "web forums" is they're an application
interface running on a remote machine, with all the downsides implied
by that: I can't choose a different interface, I have to log in
specifically to that machine to use the application, I get little
opportunity to customise, etc.

If any significant number of others feel the same way, you'll get a
split in the user community along technical rather than organisational
lines. Surely to be avoided.

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Ben Finney