On Jun 11, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
Jon A. Cruz escribió:
Personally, I find the web interfaces the opposite for me. They slow things down, get in the way, and even are bad for slow connections.
And as far as "archaic Netiquette" rules go... that's just a misconception. For example, I'd used the POV-Ray newsgroups at least since 1998. That was a good example of an art-based project with good organization of binaries of different types, with threads and robust discussions for each. There are many others, but having personally seen this problem solved eight years ago makes me fairly sure it can be solved today. :-)
My question would be: How was the artwork shared amongst the users and at the same time ensuring "bandwidth" awareness? With a web interface this is fairly easy (see the policies over at Fedoraforum), as you can simply attach the image(s) and in the message all you will see is a small thumbnail, should you click the thumbnail you will see the full image in all its grandure, at your bandwidth's expense, so from viewing the thread the image won't "get in your way".
That's exactly how the POV-Ray forums present things at the moment. (I've not been up with things there for a while, but did check again).
However.... from an NNTP viewpoint, most clients can be set to automatically fetch attachments of a given size, etc. Leaving much to the user's control.
The NNTP content and the web forum *could* be generated from the same back-end. All it takes is the use of the right software and you can get all this. Whether it's a web front for a news server, or a news feed from a web server doesn't really matter for end users.
- Ease of use. Especially for those inexperienced users with news
services, which I'd expect quite a bit of users not to be acquainted with the service.
- Ease of image sharing. After all we're talking about graphics
software here!
True. Then again, I've seen that some of the forum software out there is very bad on this point. :-) just pick the right stuff.
- No HTML messages restriction (which nowadays seems to be a bit
pointless, especially for a graphically oriented project)
That's been a non-issue on most art-related areas since the last century. :-) Bit of a strawman argument.
One question, tough... This would be a dedicated news:// sever, right? Not (necessarily) accessible through Usenet (my ISP does not provide Usenet access :( )
That would probably be a main requirement. Even when ISP's provide Usenet access, they don't always go through servers that pick up binary groups.