Re: Saints 19 Panthers 14 Author: Frank Serpas III Date: 1998/09/16 Forum: rec.sport.football.pro John Patrick Lestrade wrote: >2) where are all of the saints fan on this usenet group?? >remember the good ol days, Frank? Yeah, a bunch of fans are over on the Super Forum and/or the Black & Gold webforum. I don't post on any webforums because I maintain that Usenet is the superior medium for discussion- * Unlike webforums, Usenet is not locked into a single server. When a webforum's server goes down, nobody can post or read messages. Also, the server's owner can censor posts- one of the aforementioned forums has an unspoken policy of prohibiting discussion of certain Saints websites. * Usenet hides all the messages I've already read or bypassed; webforums make you look at them all (the best they can offer is to sort threads by date). * Deja News has all of Usenet archived back through March 1995; it's a great way to search for topics that've been covered already and to check on a poster's track record. It's also harder to fake the source of a message with Usenet. * A Usenet newsgroup is a neutral, permanent forum. The "primary" Saints webforum has switched locations at least four times in the past couple of years; whenever more than one forum is highly-active, participants are forced to check them all or risk missing something. My wish is that everyone use alt.sports.football.pro.no-saints as *the* Saints fan discussion forum, but that ain't gonna happen- the webforums are big enough draws that the other webmasters won't give them up. I'm confident enough to let SAINTERNET's content stand on its own merit. ******************************************************************************* Frank Serpas III serpas@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ............................................................................... >>>>>>>SAINTERNET- http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~serpas/saints.html