free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

Mon Mar 30 18:28:25 UTC 2020

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:18:37PM -0600, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> >The thing that mailing lists lack is a central directory of their
> >existence. The discovery problem is a pretty big one.
> 
> Where is this to be found for webforums?  I have never seen one.  Or do 
> you think Google is such a master index?  Can you please pose your 
> Google query that you think results in a comprehensive index of *all* 
> webforums?
> 
> Or is your comment nothing more that you noticing that NEITHER e-mail 
> lists NOR webforums have a master index, which is a rather useless 
> observation that would indicate that webforums have zero advantage 
> over mailing lists in this regard, so what is the point of the 
> whataboutism?

In the context of the discussion, I expect the point is that Usenet had
such functionality.

This is a significant feature advantage.  As are a bunch of other things
pointed out earlier today.

... JG
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