On 3/30/20 11:28 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:18:37PM -0600, Keith Medcalf wrote:
The thing that mailing lists lack is a central directory of their existence. The discovery problem is a pretty big one. Where is this to be found for webforums? I have never seen one. Or do you think Google is such a master index? Can you please pose your Google query that you think results in a comprehensive index of *all* webforums?
Or is your comment nothing more that you noticing that NEITHER e-mail lists NOR webforums have a master index, which is a rather useless observation that would indicate that webforums have zero advantage over mailing lists in this regard, so what is the point of the whataboutism? In the context of the discussion, I expect the point is that Usenet had such functionality.
This is a significant feature advantage. As are a bunch of other things pointed out earlier today.
Even a steaming piece of crap software like Reddit has search facilities. They may be buggy, but they're there. Nothing I know of that's even remotely similar for email lists. Mike