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

David Dean 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 .
>
>    The forum is even more user unfriendly than the whitelist/blacklist
> maintenance. 8P~ (At least it was when I gave up on it.) Have you seen
> the forums at MacNN? Those ones I can deal with. It's easy to see what
> I've already read, easy to mark a sub-section as read. And if I go
> away for a couple of weeks, It is easy to catch up.

The newsgroup would indeed be a strange place to be debating what is
wrong with the forum, but one of the 'beauties' of usenet in general and
everything that resembles it, like this non-usenet nntp, is its highly
organized anarchy.

So, if 'we' [tinw] want to debate what's wrong with the forum structure
in the newsgroup, then I guess we can do that.

I would rather let the forum people do whatever they want to do with
their structure 'over there' and just encourage the powers that be,
including Jeff and WazoO, to try to integrate as well as they can.  I
think it would have been better to have done things another way;  but I
also think the feeling was that those forum advocates wanted to have the
'best' kind of forum structure they could have, based on their own
scorecard of what /they/ wanted.

What should probably happen is a fair amount of 'artificial' cross
pollination;  wherein some posts from the forum are pasted into the nntp
group, and some posts from the nntp group are pasted into the forum.
That way, some people in the forum would start participating in the
nntp, and some people in the nntp might start participating in the
forum.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin