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Re: The Future

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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:58:08 -0400,
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>Agreed.  Are there any web forums with the equivalent of killfiles?  
>Some allow you to ignore posters, but I haven't been on any that let you 
>filter out whole threads.  Good newsreaders offer extensive filtering 
>options (I don't even use most of the capabilities of MT-Newswatcher, 
>but what I do is still far more than I've seen in forums).

Yes, forum software exists that allows killfiling people,,
threads, and entire topic areas (~= newsgroups).  And forum
software has a myriad of other features, too, not least the
ability to do more than plain text.

Usenet newsgroups are really just email at bottom, and as such
rather primitive.   They're descended (quite a long way, imo)
from PLATO's gnotes of sainted memory.  Current web-forum
software is already more than an order of magnitude better than
gnotes ever was, and there're new features being added all the
time.  The major downside is the bandwidth cost -- something true
of Usenet too, though Usenet obfuscates it.  

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  Re: The Future Justin C <justin.1203@purestblue.com> - 2012-04-26 12:41 +0100
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