sittingduck <
[email protected]> wrote:
> tcmedara wrote:
>
>> I'm still scratching my head wondering what the benefit of a "real"
>> newsreader would be. Apparently I'm stuck in the barney lane of the
>> NG world by sticking to OE, but I was still able to get to the
>> stinkin' video in two clicks. So just what is it I'm missing out
>> on? Or is it some sort of usenet elitism that's entirely lost on me?
>
>
> For the light user, OE is ok, but encourages sloppy posting (HTML, top
> posting, broken quotes, etc.), and is sorely lacking in features that
> a good newsreader has. (plain text, scoring, configurability)
> OE can be made a bit more compliant by using quotefix:
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
I installed quotefix a while ago, and it does help a bit. That said, I did
fine for years without it and I still not all that clear on what I'm
missing. I know enough to not post HTML, hence I've got all the plain text
I need, and I haven't a clue what scoring and configurability would offer me
that will make reading a mountain bike NG any more interesting. This all
seems pretty light to me.
>
> A few years ago, Ron Newman wrote a document intended to describe
> minimal standards for decent net-behaviour, in an effort to encourage
> newsreader authors to write better behaving newsreaders. Thus came
> the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval, GNKSA 1.2 in short, into being.
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-evaluations.html
Just read through the doc, and I'm still not all that convinced there's much
benefit to a "real" reader. Am I somehow "misbehaving" according to the
good Mr Newman? The "musts" and "shoulds" don't seem to matter much to me,
and I suspect that switching to a high powered news-reader (that can't
"right click/save target as") will give me capability I don't care about at
the expense of ease of use. Strikes me that the GNKSA was created by the
same folks who turn up their nose at OE just out of mere principle. Bottom
line: It allows me to read the posts, reply to the post, and keep track of
who's saying what to whom. And I can filter out MV. Anything more is a
waste of HD space.
I keep picturing the guy with some huge long-travel dual crown downhill rig
who won't ride off a curb, or the guy with full XTR gear on his bikepath
cruiser.
Tom (XT and OE are good enough for me)
