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  • Re: Response to "David Brown" (Was: (comp.lang.c) More musings on the s

    From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Tue Nov 21 16:49:34 2023
    XPost: comp.lang.c

    [email protected] (Kenny McCormack) writes:
    In article <ujijeg$sq9h$[email protected]>,
    David Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
    ...
    Even better would be to combine this with a decent web interface to
    Usenet from someone other than Google (since Google can't seem to do it >>properly). While many people (including me) find real newsreaders much >>better than any web interface would be, there are still legitimate uses
    for some people to use web interfaces.

    Just out of curiosity, is there any advantage to a "web interface" (e.g.,
    GG) vs a GUI (Windows/Mac/whatever) newsreader (Thunderbird, Claws, Forte, >etc) ? Isn't it pretty much the same thing?

    Yes. A web interface can be often used when the outbound NNTP port is blocked, for instance.

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  • From Michael S@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 21 22:16:26 2023
    XPost: comp.lang.c


    Even better would be to combine this with a decent web interface to
    Usenet from someone other than Google (since Google can't seem to do
    it properly). While many people (including me) find real newsreaders
    much better than any web interface would be, there are still
    legitimate uses for some people to use web interfaces.


    That's what https://www.novabbs.com/devel/ is.
    Not the whole usenet, not even a major part of it, but most groups that
    I am interested in are there.
    By chance comp.editors that was mentioned in original post of this topic
    is not there.
    I am afraid that sooner rather than later spammers will find this
    particular portal. I don't think that they will be able to spam through
    it, but in attempts to do it they could easily degrade the quality of
    service.

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