Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 3/30/20 11:28 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:18:37PM -0600, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> > > The thing that mailing lists lack is a central directory of their
> > > existence. The discovery problem is a pretty big one.
> > Where is this to be found for webforums?  I have never seen one.  Or do
> > you think Google is such a master index?  Can you please pose your
> > Google query that you think results in a comprehensive index of *all*
> > webforums?
> >
> > Or is your comment nothing more that you noticing that NEITHER e-mail
> > lists NOR webforums have a master index, which is a rather useless
> > observation that would indicate that webforums have zero advantage
> > over mailing lists in this regard, so what is the point of the
> > whataboutism?
> In the context of the discussion, I expect the point is that Usenet had
> such functionality.
>
> This is a significant feature advantage.  As are a bunch of other things
> pointed out earlier today.


Even a steaming piece of crap software like Reddit has search 
facilities. They may be buggy, but they're there. Nothing I know of 
that's even remotely similar for email lists.

Mike