Re: New Apple II Web Site Now Open

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 70g3kssqm08lll7atg9qcb94sie5uktu2q@news.newsguy.com, Paul Guertin
at pg@sff.net wrote on 6/9/00 9:22 PM:

> I've never understood why someone would want to use a Web-based message
> board when we have newsgroups and mailing lists. Message boards are slow,
> can only be used online (a problem if you have only one phone line or
> live in a country with metered phone service), need a Web browser, and
> are nowhere as flexible as the alternatives: one cannot use scorefiles
> on a Web board, or do a full-text search on past messages, or use a
> full-featured editor to compose messages.

I never said it would be a Web-based message board.  (Not that I said it
wouldn't be either :).

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Eric Shepherd
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