Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

[michael norman]

>
> Email, newsgroups, and web forums all date from a similar era!
>
> So your so-called 'obvious' arguments are all straw men, you haven't really
> got a single, cogent argument at all!
>
> I am merely pointing out that the requirements of this list might be better
> served by a newsgroup rather than a web-forum.  That the majority of people
> here may not WISH to migrate to a newsgroup I can entirely accept, but there
> is no technical or similar reason to prevent it.
>

Well if you are inviting a referendum I do not wish to migrate to a news 
group, or a forum.

I like mailing lists even ones where people send endless, untrimmed and 
top posted messages.

M