POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Wow, 700+ unread messages : Re: Wow, 700+ unread messages Server Time
1 Oct 2024 15:21:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wow, 700+ unread messages  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 27 Mar 2008 09:58:12
Message: <47ebb604$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:15:25 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Chambers escribió:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> That's what happens when you take a week off from here.  Scary. :-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>> 
>> You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish
>> every thread I read :)
>> 
>> 
> Gotta love NNTP. In web forums, if you click a thread, it marks the
> whole thread as read. Even if you still haven't read any of the 100
> posts, and you read only a dozen and then stop, you can't keep track of
> what you already read.
> 
> Newsreaders keep read status for individual posts.

Yep, I hate using web forums.  vBulletin is good because it can gate to 
NNTP groups, and there are a few others that do that as well.  I don't 
understand how anyone can use a web forum effectively.

Jim


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