Banana Banana@Republic wrote in news:4AD4E173.9020701@Republic:

It looks like Microsoft formed the Microsoft.Public
newsgroups in 1994, which is before any reliable web forum
software even existed and the only other good place was AOL
chatroom (?!)

I would say that a good news reader and a reliable newsfeed are
still vastly superior to any web-based discussion forum I've ever
encountered. Maybe the approach seeni in Google Wave will change
that, but we're a long way from that.

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