On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:14:39 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Waitwaitwaitwait I *just* noticed I misread that, not noticing you had
> misread my post. Of course it wouldn't be a *newsgroup* per topic. I
> meant a *thread* per topic. Making a "tech support thread" with
> thousands of posts is what web forums do, and wouldn't work on
> newsgroups. Making a "tech support group/forum category" with one thread
> per question is what people should do; and how it works on newsgroups.

Ah, yes, well, as you said, thread drift is always going to happen, too.  
But many "web forums" interchange "discussion group" with "thread".  
vBulletin doesn't do that - it has an NNTP gateway that maps a newsgroup 
to a forum.

> When somebody gets a rendering artifact in POV-Ray, he posts a new
> thread on povray.general, like for any other problem. Some web forums
> would have a sticky thread called "Rendering artifacts help" with
> thousands of posts, and asking everybody with an artifact-related
> problem to post there. I think that is a stupid idea.

I agree that it's a stupid idea. :-)

Jim

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