Re: Newsgroups beef (was Stock inflaters?)

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:58:14 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

> ng/s expanded to .help and .mail -- f/ups to .help
> 
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Keith Jillings wrote:
> 
>>> Thanks for that link - I've not used the forums before - should I use
>>> those rather than posting here?
>>
>> I suppose you /could/ use the forums instead of the newsgroups.  Or,
>> you could use the spamcop.mail wannabe-dead newsgroup, which would be
>> /my/ recommendation.
> 
> Once upon a time some powers came along and tried to destroy support in
> the spamcop.mail newsgroup by removing it from here
> ... simply because the/a power didn't like to support newsgroup
> questions and wanted to instigate his own notions of webforum support.
> It was a shortsighted concept because of lack of full appreciation for
> what is bad about a webforum's various 'manifestations' and what is good
> about nntp support functions.

Amen !!  Plus don't forget the bubble-headed egos possessed by some of the
forums's denizens, that cause me and plenty of others to steer way clear
of that place.


K.
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