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Element14 further breaks the newsgroup

Former Member

From the newsgroup, if you attempt to reply directly to the poster of a

message you receive an email from Element14

 

 

Quote:.....

You've recently responded directly to an email alert and your message

was sent to the general email inbox: communitymanager@premierfarnell.com

instead of the intended recipient.

 

To make sure your response arrives to the intended contact, please login

to your element14 account, click on the link from the original

message/email alert and post your response........end Quote

 

This is amazingly bad. It breaks the historical expected behaviour of the

news group.

 

Warren

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Joerg wrote on Sun, 18 July 2010 10:34

    And web forums can't do a lot of things NNTP can. Mostly related to

    speed and threading.

     

    Not true.  But again, the various pros and cons have been hashed out plenty

    already.  Statements like that when you know very well there are opinions

    and arguments on the other side serve no purpose than to start another

    pointless food fight.

     

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Olin Lathrop wrote:

     

    >> And web forums can't do a lot of things NNTP can. Mostly related to

    >> speed and threading.

    >

    >Not true.

     

    it is true. Especially threading is an important feature missing in

    most forum software. And the speed issue is also immense.

     

    But again, the various pros and cons have been hashed out plenty

    >already.  Statements like that when you know very well there are opinions

    >and arguments on the other side serve no purpose than to start another

    >pointless food fight.

     

    it's not pointless. Accept that there are people knowing the

    important benefits of NNTP. I don't want to read weakly founded "pro

    forum" postings uncommented because I don't want to be forced to use a

    forum some day.

     

    Therefore the "pro forum" people must not keep quiet (although most of

    them appear rarely). I suggest you count them, you might be surprised.

     

    And why do you ignore that Joerg disproved one more "pro forum" you

    mentioned, the decision whether to offer a off-group contact or not?

     

    As far as I see, the only remaining "benefit" of a forum is fancy

    formatting (what does this improve?) and the possibility to store

    large files (which is also possible in the CadSoft file area but

    rarely necessary).

     

    Oliver

     

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Olin Lathrop wrote:

     

    >> And web forums can't do a lot of things NNTP can. Mostly related to

    >> speed and threading.

    >

    >Not true.

     

    it is true. Especially threading is an important feature missing in

    most forum software. And the speed issue is also immense.

     

    But again, the various pros and cons have been hashed out plenty

    >already.  Statements like that when you know very well there are opinions

    >and arguments on the other side serve no purpose than to start another

    >pointless food fight.

     

    it's not pointless. Accept that there are people knowing the

    important benefits of NNTP. I don't want to read weakly founded "pro

    forum" postings uncommented because I don't want to be forced to use a

    forum some day.

     

    Therefore the "pro forum" people must not keep quiet (although most of

    them appear rarely). I suggest you count them, you might be surprised.

     

    And why do you ignore that Joerg disproved one more "pro forum" you

    mentioned, the decision whether to offer a off-group contact or not?

     

    As far as I see, the only remaining "benefit" of a forum is fancy

    formatting (what does this improve?) and the possibility to store

    large files (which is also possible in the CadSoft file area but

    rarely necessary).

     

    Oliver

     

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Oliver Betz wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 02:35

    it is true.

     

    Grow up.  There are arguments on both sides that have already been hashed

    out aplenty.  Let's not get into this again.

     

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  • in reply to Former Member

    On 07/19/10 13:28, Olin Lathrop wrote:

    Oliver Betz wrote on Mon, 19 July 2010 02:35

    >> it is true.

     

    Grow up.  There are arguments on both sides that have already been hashed

    out aplenty.  Let's not get into this again.

     

    Olin, can you please stop trying to always have the last word?!

     

    Klaus Schmidinger

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