From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 13:43:42 MDT
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> > You can see whoever uses BBS by mangled quoting
>
> So it's as good as outlook then?!?!
Actually, Outlook *is* better, if you use http://jump.to/oe-quotefix I
should know, because I use Outlook 2k at work, and it quotes just
lickety-split, if you use that app.
> > (and YaBB as
> > X-Mailer in
> > the rich headers). As far as I can see very few people are
> > using the BBS.
>
> Still, it's nice to have it.
It would be even nicer to have a properly formatted searchable webarchive
with posting function, though. Seems to be rocket science, though.
> It does do well to remember every now and then that this has been an email
> forum for a long time, and that the majority of its users like it that way.
> For all its dumbness, email is very accessible, difficult to block, and can
> work nicely in an offline mode (which websites cannot).
Email is not dumb at all. Especially if you can have both the
functionality of email and web forums without even having to program a
line of code.
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