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Chris Hills
Why?
The beauty of news groups is that they come to me I don't have to go to
them. Also all the people who have been around a while know what they
are doing and are here.
I noticed that there are some C and C++ Forums on another system. Full
of the blind (opinionated) leading the blind.
The problem is that as the experienced people who have been around a
long while are on usenet. the system works. Why move. Certainly not to a
forum on a commercial web site. The web site might go down. Usenet
can't. Web based systems are not as safe. I have to trust you about
cookies and all sorts. (active X etc).
Usenet is international and independent. It is not controlled by anyone.
Why would anyone move from this system to a web based one in a a rogue
state?
There is no point in running a web based forum except as a support forum
for your own products.
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Axter
Chris said:
The two main things I despise about newsgroups are the topic police and
some of the ill mannered participants that spoil it for everyone.
One good reason to use a web base forum VS newsgroup is that you don't
have so many topic police in forums like you do in newsgroups. And in
forums, members usually behave like they have some manners.
If I want to know how to do XYZ in C language, I don't want to talk
to a general programmer who specializes in XYZ. I personally prefer to
talk to a C expert who knows how to do XYZ.
I think web base forums do a good job in allowing users to ask a
variety of questions that only require a loose relationship with the
topic forum.
I've been programming for over 15 years, and I rarely visit the
usenet. Most of the experts I know do not participate in the usenet.
I place a higher value on advise coming from a good forum like
experts-exchange.com or CodeGuru.com, over the advise from a newsgroup.
It's much easier to measure a members expertise on either of the
above two forums, then it is to measure a newsgroups user's
expertise.
I recommend you try these forums out, before making an uninformed
conclusion.
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Chris Hills
Axter said:
I think that is marginally true. the problem with NG's is trolls and
cross posting.
Then use this or the standard.c NG
How is that different to a NG?
I have been programming 20 years and on the net for 15. (fido before
that
As a member of several ISO panels (C and C++) I think you wil find that
most are on usenet. It is where they started long before web forums came
about.
That is the point, most of the experts were on usenet before the web
based stuff was around. There are lots of these web based forum that
have cropped up. Some that specialise in a particular product are quite
good but on the whole they are not as good as the NG.
I have seen them hence my conclusion.
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Default User
Axter said:
If you want moderated groups for C or C++, their are usenet ones
already.
No need. Most of us have looked at or even used such forums over the
years. They generally fail miserably. The traffic will be light (it's
essentially zero at those currently), and those that are using it are
fairly clueless.
Most of us have trouble keeping up with the usenet groups applicable to
our craft, we don't need to add a bunch of web forums that duplicate
those. I also MUCH prefer the usenet newsreader display options to the
fixed (and not very useful) one in most web forums. I'm surprised that
web programmers haven't worked harder to produce something closer to
the window-style usenet reader.
Brain
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Default User
Default said:
Jeez, that looks illiterate, "there are usenet ones" is what I intended
to type.
And misspledded my own name as well. Oh well.
Brian