Re: White/Black List Interface Is *NOT* User Friendly

Peter Pepper wrote:
> "Jeff G."
>> While we appreciate your suggestions, they should be made in the new
>> SpamCop Forum devoted to SpamCop Email at
>> http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showforum=4 .
>>
>
> Then what is spamcop.mail used for now? Is it being retired?

Give 'em hell Peter;  I'm on your side.

Someone developed the deluded idea that webforums were growing in
popularity while only a minority of people were nntp capable.   And many
people needing help could find it in a webforum but couldn't in a
newsgroup, even including a newsgroup attached to a mailing list
awkwardly.

As a result of the delusion, 'they' drifted in the direction of 'phasing
out' the nntp support in favor of the forum, and they did that even
though there was an existing integration between webforum, mailing list,
and nntp at gmane.  Where 'they' will have to speak up for themselves;
I don't even know who 'we' is, except there is no we.

Meanwhile, all kinds of people who are messing with their webforums 'out
there' are wishing they could 'convert' them over to nntp while still
maintaining the same following they have in the forum.

My own opinion was that the webforums should be used to train or coax
people how to nntp while helping them and to 'ooch' them over to nntp as
soon as possible, because the forums have a great many disadvantages
compared to the nntp.

OTOH, the forums also have some advantages;  so having both is the best
of both worlds.  Except having both is not at all the same as 'phasing
out' nntp.

The nntp support for mail should be improved and 'integrated with' the
forum.  Not phased out and pushed into the forum.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin