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That's another thing... illegible fonts and black text on coloured
backgrounds.... yuk!! ;-))

Jan.
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"Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn.

LOL  You've got me there Jan ;-)

This would have been a great thread to post using HTML, with a black
background and flashing blue letters <g>

No wait! A "balloon picture" background with alternating yellow and red
letters!

(Anybody who thinks I'm kidding should occasionally peruse the "daily
sucker" section of www.webpagesthatsuck.com)

'Because it was the only thing I could click which might take me to more
content.'

Look at the top of the pageon the left. There's a pretty little nested
cluster of links thus:

SimBin Forums > General > Articles/Site Feedback > GPL is dead, Long Live
the new GPL.

Each one clickable and underlined to denote a hyperlink with the exception
of the last. Granted it's not at the bottom but with your lack of scroll
button... ;-) What is there, is a drop down box entitled forum jump which
takes you to any forum on the site. I will concede though that the '0
replies since Dec. 18 2001,17:11'  is difficult to read at my 1280X960 res
on a 19" Monitor. I will make it bigger.

'Because I can't, at a glance, tell if anyone knowledgable/worth reading has
replied to a certain topic.'

Each Topic has a 'Latest Reply' notification with the name of the person who
replied (clickable so you can check their credentials) but of course, you
know that everyone on our forums is knowledgable?? :-)  In addition, if you
register and provide an email, you can choose to track any topic and will
receive an email stating who replied, when and to which subject.

'Add to this the various filtering and search facilities offered through the
newsreader and I much prefer usenet to Forums for general news.'

Have you actually checked our search function Jan? It's immensely powerful
and goes as far as to store a cache of previous searches. It then reminds
you when you last searched and with what keywords when you begin another.

Don't get me wrong, I like RAS a lot, I just don't see why it must always be
an either/or.

Cheers

Ian
www.simbin.com

If you use Opera you can resolve it by switching to "user
representation", so web page authors can't make you read
red on red.

Unfortunately, other problems of web forums it is not
easily fixable (if fixable at all)

Alex.

Alex.

Alex.

I need the threading and authors because in some forums I frequent
if I see a question I could answer but see someone posting in the
thread who should be able to answer it I can skip the thread.

Usenet is also superior because of spam. We all have evolved
ways of dealing with off topic stuff such that we can sort
past it very quickly. If I have to sit and wait for
several seconds on my T3 line while the forum loads
a huge thread (and probably a lot of advertising banners)
then I lose interest quickly when I see that the new
page is filled with threads about nothing important.
The chance I'll hit the next page three more times
to page past all the new threads is pretty small.
The point is I had to wait a long time just to be annoyed ;)

Some web pages don't work with my browser.
They go in cycles. Every 3 or 4 weeks I go a week
without access unless I stop browser 1 and start up
browser 2. I don't waste that much time very often either.

- Matt

Given that google archives usenet and is quite up to date, I
think usenet is still superior (and probably always will be
because it's a "best-of-breed" application for this kind of
problem).

Cheers,

uwe

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