From: John Kim (kim_at_stormhaven.org)
Date: Wed Dec 02 1998 - 13:44:49 EST
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Randal Whittle wrote:
> At 11:14 PM 11/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >the next hour. :-) A newsreaders is built into Netscape, and
> >it's trivial to link to a newsgroup via an HTML tag, so I
> >don't think it should be an issue that most people don't know
> >what it is.
>
> John, you overestimate the abilities of your internet-using (newly so)
> peers. To you and I, and perhaps most anyone on this list, it is indeed
> trivial. But to a host of people who have hooked on to the internet in the
> past year or two, it is not. These people know how to use a web browser
> and their e-mail software--and nothing else.
Actually, all I meant was that it was trivial to put a link to
a newsgroup on a web page. Once the link is there, the
browser will automatically open up the newsgroup with the
newsreader even if the user doesn't know what a newsreader is,
and you can do stuff like this:
> one "private" newsgroup that one of the Prof's in my Electronic Commerce
> program when I was at USC was invited to join. It was essentially a
> newsgroup, but required a password for access. It made use of Netscape's
> "Collabra" software, a part of its "Communicator" suite (which included
> Navigator 4.0). This is a fabulous solution, as it allows you to limit
> access to people who want to be part of the discussion and lock out spammers.
-- John H. Kim kim_at_stormhaven.org
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