Jargons of Info Tech industry

[John Bokma]

Dragan Cvetkovic <me at privacy.net> wrote:

> John Bokma <john at castleamber.com> writes:
> 
>>> A forum provides a
>>> single, usually rather limited, interface for the user with no way
>>> for the user to change it radically.
>>
>> Does the user want this? And with a user stylesheet you can change it
>> quite radically :-)
>>
>> And in return the user gets: colors, fonts, font sizes, embedding of 
>> images, flash, you name it. Moving avatars, even sounds.
> 
> Sounds scary. When I want to read a text, I don't need the whole
> multimedia experience.

so use Lynx :-)

One forum I visit is about scorpions. And really, it talks a bit easier 
about scorpions if you have an image to look at :-D.

In short: Usenet = Usenet, and www = www. Why some people want to move 
people from www to Usenet or vice versa is beyond me. If 80% of the current 
Usenet users stop posting, Usenet is not going to die :-D

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