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   Julian Bradfield to Troels Forchhammer   
   Re: Saving Usenet communities (was: No n   
   10 Jun 09 20:47:36   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien   
   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2009-06-10, Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
      
   > I really wish that I had a golden solution -- I certainly share your   
   > distaste for web forums, but if someone was to find a suitable web-   
   > forum that has some reasonable threading, I suppose it could be   
   > tempting (programming one ourselves might turn out to be a bit too   
   > much).   
      
   What's the advantage of a specific web forum over a specific (free)   
   NNTP server? (Does IE have a news client built in?)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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