With all this talk about various means to participate to these forums, I’d
like to know exactly which ways there are, and who uses what.
I know about HTTP and NNTP. Some people also use it trough RSS ?
Post your type.
Mine: +2 NNTP (one at home, and one in the office. Multiple users, there.)
–
The sand remembers once there was beach and sunshine
but chip is warm too
– haiku from Effector Online, Volume 1, Number 6
NNTP
I’m using HTTP
Rikishi 42 wrote:
> With all this talk about various means to participate to these forums, I’d
> like to know exactly which ways there are, and who uses what.
>
> I know about HTTP and NNTP. Some people also use it trough RSS ?
>
> Post your type.
>
> Mine: +2 NNTP (one at home, and one in the office. Multiple users, there.)
>
I’m reading from NNTP right now for the first time. Lots faster than HTTP
over my slow dialup.
Both NNTP & HTTP. Still trying to find the best NNTP app to use under Windows & Mac since I bounce between all 3 OSes.
HTTP: using the old school way. 
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 22:13 +0000, Rikishi 42 wrote:
> With all this talk about various means to participate to these forums, I’d
> like to know exactly which ways there are, and who uses what.
>
> I know about HTTP and NNTP. Some people also use it trough RSS ?
>
> Post your type.
>
>
> Mine: +2 NNTP (one at home, and one in the office. Multiple users, there.)
nntp
NNTP here.
Jim
I don’t feel so alone anymore
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 00:26 +0000, vendion wrote:
> Unseen-Ghost;1816045 Wrote:
> > HTTP: using the old school way.
>
> I don’t feel so alone anymore
>
>
nntp IS the “old school” way (just fyi).
http is the new kid on the block.
I use Thoth on the Macintosh, Pan on Linux, and Agent on Windows. I have Unison on the Mac, but it simply pales in comparison to Thoth in terms of power and configuration. Pan is quite solid, and Agent is world class.
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 01:16 +0000, kastorff wrote:
> 69_rs_ss;1816044 Wrote:
> > Both NNTP & HTTP. Still trying to find the best NNTP app to use under
> > Windows & Mac since I bounce between all 3 OSes.
>
> I use Thoth on the Macintosh, Pan on Linux, and Agent on Windows. I
> have Unison on the Mac, but it simply pales in comparison to Thoth in
> terms of power and configuration. Pan is quite solid, and Agent is
> world class.
>
>
I don’t have a Mac, but for Linux and Windows I like Thunderbird,
just because the interface is similar that way (would think there
“might” be a version for Mac?).
Both ways
It is so easy to be logged on the wiki and than just switch to forums and back, but of KNode is much faster to read messages.
I’m new/old/new-school HTTP, though I’m well versed with NNTP from my past.
Having said that, anyone know of a decent NNTP client for blackberry? Could shift my answer… 
Cheers,
KV
rajko m wrote:
>
> Both ways
>
> It is so easy to be logged on the wiki and than just switch to forums
> and back, but of KNode is much faster to read messages.
Putty from work to home.
slrn via leafnode
So NNTP
This was written under the influence of the following:
| Artist : Supertramp
| Song : Rudy
| Album : Paris
else where wrote:
>
> I’m new/old/new-school HTTP, though I’m well versed with NNTP from my
> past.
>
> Having said that, anyone know of a decent NNTP client for blackberry?
> Could shift my answer…
Can the Blackberry do putty/ssh? If so, ssh to a place where you have access
and then use slrn.
This was written under the influence of the following:
| Artist : Eagles
| Song : New Kid In Town
| Album : Hotel California
I’m too using http.
You find one let me know too.
You find one let me know too.
Ditto.
As for how I’m interacting here, currently via the web as it’s important to me to get totally familiar with all the aspects of that interface and fix problems, etc. Down the road when all the dust settles, I’ll switch to NNTP which I prefer.
FWIW Knode is an EXCELLENT reader that comes with openSUSE (I prefer it over PAN, but PAN isn’t bad) For Windows users (here?!?) I prefer an offline reader called Virtual Access, but most readers will do (even Outlook Express). Check out the FAQ on it.
Benefits of web: Lots of options, bells and whistles, browser access, and of course my wonderful avatar. Benefits of NNTP: Speed. Speed. Speed. I’m more than twice as efficient in reading/replying to messages in NNTP. Also, on a slow connection the web interface is painful where NNTP is not. I’m glad we have both. One other thing…searching in NNTP is dependant on the client so you have a wide variety of usability in NNTP when it comes to searching. Web search OTOH, is solid and uniform.
I’m a HTTP-User. Maybe I will give NNTP someday a try, but for now I’ll stay with HTTP.