From: greg andruk (gja@meowing.net)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 15:31:25 CDT
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> greg andruk said:
>
>>>And yet, unlike nicknames in email, I don't see any newsreaders that *do*
>>>provide it. This makes me wonder whether it's as workable as the proponents
>>>are suggesting.
>>
>>They are usually called bookmarks or favorites, and lots of people use them.
>
>
> No they aren't, and no they don't.
Yes, they are, and yes, we do. I personally use these things,
nonprofits I've worked with use these things, and they are certainly not
a figment of our collective imagination.
> Bookmark/favourites (which I actually
> only see in web servers
No, they tend to appear in web browsers; in a typical server, they would
be pointless.
The Web is much more than HTTP and HTML. It encompasses a wide variety
of Internet-accessible services, including news. Consequently, Web
browsers provide access to these services. Most Web browsers are, in
fact, newsreaders among other things.
> - in newsreaders they tend to be "list of
> subscribed groups") are not the same as some kind of global tag.
There are no _global_ tags because Usefor has dragged its feet for the
better part of a decade. On a local and organizational basis -- the
original context of this tangent -- they certainly are there and quite
usable. A real life example:
$ grep ware.nntp lynx_bookmarks.html
<LI><a href="newspost://news.verizon.net/news.software.nntp">post: The
Network News Transfer Protocol.</a>