free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

Tue Mar 31 00:58:24 UTC 2020

On 3/30/20 11:18 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> On Monday, 30 March, 2020 11:19, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/30/20 5:52 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:30:16AM -0500, Joe Greco wrote:
>>>> Actual text traffic has been slowly dying off for years as webforums
>>>> have matured and become a better choice of technology for nontechnical
>>>> end users on high speed Internet connections.
>>> My view is that the move to web forums is a huge downgrade.  Mailing
>>> lists are vastly superior.
>> []
>> 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?
>

I didn't expect to get an apology, and wasn't disappointed.

MIke