On 3/30/20 11:18 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote:
On Monday, 30 March, 2020 11:19, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 3/30/20 5:52 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
Actual text traffic has been slowly dying off for years as webforums have matured and become a better choice of technology for nontechnical end users on high speed Internet connections. My view is that the move to web forums is a huge downgrade. Mailing
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:30:16AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: lists are vastly superior. [] 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?
I didn't expect to get an apology, and wasn't disappointed. MIke