[SpamCop-List] Re: The webgizmo is gone!!

[Miss Betsy]

"Firewoman" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:bvbhe2$d4n$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> "indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:bvbh0a$cji$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> > Firewoman wrote:
> > > "Marjolein Katsma" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
> > >>>
> > >> No, a considerable number of us will not test, or alpha-test or
> > >> beta-test the web forums at all - we won't go anywhere near
them.
> > >
> > >
> > > Problem is, if that's all that's available, where else do you
go?
> >
> > Away.
>
> I guess it's one way to clean out the groups.  Communication is
> communication, it's still typed in using a keyboard, still goes out
to the
> internet.  Form and function change all the time, but the basis is
still the
> same.  I can see a bit why so many people are upset over the change,
but I
> wouldn't have even noticed it because my NG program still pulls up
all the
> groups in NNTP regardless (at least until they go bye-bye).
>
> Change happens, that's why we're here fighting spam.  Changes are
always a
> challenge, and I just can't see all the people that have populated
these
> forums dropping away and giving up on a challenge unless they got
hit by a
> bus.
>

The allure of the unmoderated newsgroups is that when you have
freewheeling ideas and some good humor, then creative ideas happen.  I
was just reading about a similar comparison in a Plumbing Trade
magazine.

all of the web forums I have visited have been pretty cut and dried.
Question/Answer.  If what one is looking for is an answer, that's
great - which was the purpose behind the change.

The people who are upset want the freewheeling style of a newsgroup -
which, unless there is a reason that it is a problem for JT to
maintain the ngs, probably won't go away except .help - where nobody
probably should have been except to ask and answer questions anyway.

Miss Betsy