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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Move internals discussion to a better medium
From: me@stephencoakley.com (Stephen Coakley)

On 08/02/2015 08:17 AM, Markus Malkusch wrote:
> Niklas Keller wrote:
>> 2015-08-02 14:32 GMT+02:00 Markus Malkusch <markus@malkusch.de>:
>>
>>> What wrong with <news://news.php.net/>?
>>
>> That's a joke, right?
>
> No it's not, why should it? You did notice the news:// scheme, did you?
>
>> We're discussing issues here, so what's wrong with an issue tracker?
>
> Ok, that's a valid point.
>
>> I can see more than one benefit. Probably most important is that you can
>> follow just some things, instead of getting all the mails. Additionally,
>> you can ping people
>
> I don't see that point. Newsreader can follow discussions as well. And what
> benefit has pinging, compared to a direct email?
>
>>> Let's reference something then <news:E6.64.22108.E69F7B55@pb1.pair.com>
>>
>> That's a mailto link for me as well.
>
> Well, that's because you are using a mail client. OP was complaining about
> the limited interfaces. Use a Newsreader and there you have your reference.
> Even Google is able to follow that.
>
>> If you want to build and provide a good search engine around it
>
> I don't, news.php.net is public and search engines for news server do exist.
> Google once did search them as well, don't know how it is nowadays though.
>
> Markus Malkusch
>

You have to admit, NNTP news is an aging technology, with fewer and 
fewer readers available as time goes on. Nowadays (for graphical 
clients), there's Pan, and Thunderbird, and...? I use Thunderbird at the 
moment, because I didn't want to fill up my email, and there aren't too 
many readers. Heck, Thunderbird is technically a "discontinued" product.

-- 
Stephen Coakley