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Peter Clinch wrote: Rob wrote: Some people still like and enjoy steam engines - most of us drive somethinga little more modern. Where in this particular case the "more modern" is more awkward to use, slower and generally more crap. Sort of a Thamslink Trains vs. the Brighton Belle... "more modern" and "more fashionable" is not necessarily better. The easiest way to demonstrate the superiority of usenet over any web forum I've yet seen is look at uk.rec.cycling through a news feed and through the web interface cyclingforums have put onto the newsfeed to present the same posts. The big difference for me is that when I've read a news post I click the right arrow key and the next post appears immediately. When I do whatever the equivalent on a forum is I have to wait while the page is fetched. It might be a small delay, as I'm on 2M broadband, but multiply it by a hundred or so - each day - and you see why I don't bother with the forum format. Incidentally I think that the biggest problem is that with any really informative message, by the time you've read it, the next button has scrolled off the top of the screen, so instead of one key to move on you have to scroll up or down (and remember which one it is on this particular forum), find the button click - wait - wait - and then find that it's something you are not interested in, and repeat the process for the next. Oh, and did I mention font sizes and colours that don't produce easily read text - in a newsreader I control the font, and colour scheme, to one that I want to read. Until CSS2 becomes universal and browsers really allow you to override elements of the CSS, instead of the current only option of disabling it completely, I prefer to be in control. Sorry, a decent newsreader makes handling this sort of thing fast, easy and comfortable. Maybe the problem is that people don't have newsreaders. Alan -- Alan Adams http://www.nckc.org.uk/ |