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Subject Author Date Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug nots.parry316 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug steve 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug steve 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug Marksfish 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug WaltA 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug steve 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug WaltA 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug WaltA 11-21-2006  Re: Fora (Forums) was Shameless link plug steve 11-21-2006
Posted by on November 21, 2006, 1:46 pm Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:07:49 GMT, please@dontspam.nothere.com (WaltA) wrote: >On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:08:03 +0000, steve@tropheus.demon.co.uk wrote: >>when given a choice, 80% of group members will use NNTP (usenet) >>in preference to the WEB. > >Interesting. > >(OT) >Any breakdown on what proportion of each choice are newcomers to the >internet and how many are old dinosaurs ? (who may remember the days >before the 'www" ? when nntp, telnet, ftp etc. were _the_ modes and >protocols lol! ) >(/OT) The group I sampled is for software developers so most will be aware of other parts of the Internet besides the web. Many of them write web applications but still use nntp by preference for discussions. They are not old dinosaurs (besides me). Even allowing for the fact that most members are technically "with it", the 80% was unexpected by me. I thought initially it would be an even split. -- Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks. http://www.easynn.com Posted by WaltA on November 21, 2006, 4:46 pm Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:46:45 +0000, steve@tropheus.demon.co.uk wrote: >The group I sampled is for software developers so most will be aware >of other parts of the Internet besides the web. Ah so! not the demographics we were previously thinking about then ! there are statistics and , , , well, statistics !! Posted by WaltA on November 21, 2006, 12:55 pm Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:04:11 +0000, nots.parry316@btint???et.com wrote: >I take on board what folks have said re. Usenet Vs web forums, but I >feel we usenutters are a dying breed. I have been using >http://www.uk-aquarist.com/index.php?act=idx Thanks for the link Stephen, I hadn't seen that one before. One thing that did strike me on a first lookround was the intrusion of large (and usually offtopic) intrusive signatures ! One of them even includes an animated .gif ! at over 100k, which is a bit of a hiatus for a dialup user. Other than that it looks good :) So I have to agree with Mark that >> "I think there is a place for both, but text groups are by far the quickest and easiest ;) " ( perhaps I'll go-on about avatars sometime else, cos I've done enough grumping for today ;-)) ) Posted by on November 21, 2006, 1:48 pm Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:55:56 GMT, please@dontspam.nothere.com (WaltA) wrote: >( perhaps I'll go-on about avatars sometime else, cos I've done enough >grumping for today ;-)) ) Are yes, avatars, another really useless part of web forums. -- Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks. http://www.easynn.com Similar Threads Posted Shameless link plug November 19, 2006, 5:05 am