Stan Brown:
| On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:35:55 -0500, E. S. Fabian wrote:
|| While I agree with your suggestion, you do need to post it in JP
|| Software's "TC suggestions" forum for it to reach anyone with the
|| means to implement it! If you wish to influence the future of TCC,
|| you need to bite the bullet and join the forum.
|
| Steve, that's a fair enough statement. The reason I resist, as you
| know, is that captive one-issue forums are very, very much less
| convenient to use than Usenet. Also, and nothing against Rex
| personally, I'm bothered by the idea of a single point where unwanted
| messages can be permanently deleted.
If you read any of the JPsoft fora (browsing does not require signing
up), you would be aware that I am one of the two most vociferous opponents
of browser-based NGs. Most recently I made the comparison of Usenet-style
and browser-based NGs something like this: with Usenet style, each issue is
delivered to your doorstep; browser based is like the need to visit the
library to see what's new since the last visit. Your other point (ability to
permanently delete unwanted messages) does in fact also apply to MODERATED
Usenet NGs. AFAIK no messages were ever deleted from the new-style JPsoft
forum just because they were critical of the owner or the company. OTOH you
do want the ability of some person to delete spam, esp. pornography.
| Still, I may just have to live with the inconvenience. My questions
| and comments about TCC/LE are piling up. :-)
Whenever you sign up for the offical web forum, there is a page where
you can select how to be notified about new messages (posts) in each of the
subgroups. The one labelled "instant notification by email" is mistitled -
it results in sending you a copy of the whole post by EMAIL ("mailto:"). If
you use Outlook Express as your mail client, as I do, "reply to sender" will
send your response to the forum, where it will be (eventually) posted. Bye
sending email to the same sender you can make original posts. The posting
delay, measured as the time between sending the email and receiving it back
from the forum server varies between less than a minute to many hours. This
is caused by the interaction of the bulletinboard software, which is
purchased (or leased) by Rex Conn, and the email interface software Rex
wrote. I never discovered whether the delay is in the element of the
software which converts incoming messages to new bulletinboard postings,
which would delay the appearance of the message to everyone, or in the other
element, which detects a new post on the board, and mails it out to all
interested parties.
BTW, I recommend that you sign up not only to the TCC/LE NGs, but also
to the TCMD ones. Although the latter contain posts relating to both TCMD
and TCC mixed together, the vast majority actually relate to TCC, and a lot
of them relate to features included in TCC/LE, including all issues of
syntax.
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Steve