Re: NEWSWire/400-11.04.98

NEWSWire/400 wrote:
 
> ON THE WEB: NEW RPG PROGRAMMER COMMUNITY
> http://www.news400.com
> Due to popular demand, we've launched a new RPG Programmer
> community, moderated by three of our best RPG tech editors, Bryan
> Meyers, Mike Cravitz, and Gary Guthrie. You'll find several forums
> for specific problems and solutions, which should help keep the
> issues focused to your area of interest - CL, DDS, RPG general,
> directions, and style. In addition, due to the success of our RPG
> Style Guide, we've created a CL Style Guide draft. Please review
> the draft and give us your comments in the CL forum. To check it
> out, see http://www.news400.com .

I'm so disgusted I could spit nails.  Those web forums are too slow and
too awkward.  Newsgroups and mailing lists are made for this kind of
discussion.  Why don't you sink the effort in those places?  Mike and
Gary, and to a lesser extent, Bryan, spend time in the Newslink forums. 
What do you bet their time on Newslink goes down dramatically?

I simply cannot justify my time and frustration with web forums when the
majority of time is spent _waiting_.  I know.  I tried the Duke web
forums for months.  If you want me to participate in a forum, it has to
be efficient.  I am ass-u-ming that at least part of the reasoning
behind web forums is advertising dollars Duke can generate.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

-- 
-Jeff

jlcrosby@fwi.com
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