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put in a newsgroup

Submitted by Urbane.Tiger on June 11, 2008 to Website suggestion

HTML not good for this sort of thing, Usenet much better

or use MS Discussions format, as they appear in IE7/8 (but not as they appear in IE6, Opera or Fx)

Current format is hopeless - should not need to open multiple tabs for something as simple as this - if folks don't like NG interface then Google groups would be alternative

mirror to a Usenet server

Low

Low

Rejected

Discussion (6 comments)

longzheng wrote on June 11, 2008, 10:31am

I don't think Usenet has as much appeal or familiarity to most users as a website.

Oscar wrote on June 11, 2008, 10:33am

This has to be the most stupid suggestion ever.

longzheng wrote on June 11, 2008, 10:53am

Changed status from [Not fixed] to [Rejected]

thenonhacker wrote on June 11, 2008, 3:17pm

Newsgroups is the thing of the past Web 1.0

If you suggested "RSS", this will get my +1.

bwilson wrote on June 13, 2008, 12:37am

@thenonhacker--are you kidding? I agree with your meaning but am willing to go farther. For me Usenet is Web 0.0.

.Chris wrote on June 15, 2008, 7:38am

this site is fine as is. he could do a IPB forum, but thats another story....

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