Subj : Re: Browsers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 22 2025 08:38:00

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 Bo> What client did people use to acess the NNTP server?  Just a
 Bo> newsreader, or was there a web frontend?

 pF> Communicator had a newsreader back then - so did Outlook Express, and
 pF> plain ol' Outlook, too. NNTP did 90% of what people use corporate
 pF> social networks and microblogs for these days.

NNTP's weakness is authentication, or more specifically how identity is
presented.  But you are right, its quite a good option for central messaging if
you can control that aspect of it.  The company I work for uses Teams, which is
AWFUL, as well as WeChat, which is just chat.  Otherwise, its all done by email
groups, which are a mess.  Group emails by CC'ing in everyone is just a
headache.  Before that it was some Microsoft Web based system, which also
sucked.

Its weird how people keep trying to reinvent the same thing over and over.
Technologies which solve problems alread exist, but whoever is in IT, making
decisions or proposals simply isn't aware of what current technology can do,
and
looks at the next marketed fad and tries that.  So, so often at work I have to
do things in a hamfisted and awkward way, which could be much, much better,
using tools which have already existed for decades, and are FREE!


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