[vcf-midatlantic] Let's add value to the club, and have fun doing it!!!

[Dave McGuire]

On 12/26/2015 01:40 PM, Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> The problem with many forums and especially the Vintage Forums is
> that you have to visit them to see new posts and there is no decent
> mobile client. I do visit the Vintage Forums but miss out on many
> others Atari, Mercedes-Benz, 3D-Printing to name but a few, as these
> all require explicit visits to see posts. I really don't understand
> why Forums are better than UseNet news.

  I think the root of this issue is the type of activity "using the
Internet" is for different groups of people.  For those people for whom
getting online is a form of recreation, having time to burn, the "Oh,
I'll go check over there and see what's going on!" type of "polling"
system can work well as a leisure-time activity.  But for those of us
who work in front of a screen, the interrupt-driven nature of a mailing
list tends to be a lot more efficient.

  I've thought about this a lot over the years, as I try to decipher the
inexplicable mentality of the "Turn everything on the Internet into a
WEB PAGE!!" people, and that's the best theory I've been able to come up
with.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA