>By "of course" I was trying to convey my awareness that a straight
>BB system lacks a feature that others (like you) consider crucial.
>
>I think there probably is a threaded BB system out there that does
>offer subscriptions, but I don't know what it is.
>
>However, I also think that by moving to a threaded bb system, one's
>ability to follow what one wants improves. So if there's a long
>discussion on the equivalent of HQ-Rules about how to model WWII
>artillery, and you don't care about that, you can not read that
>thread.
Before Microsoft persuaded everyone to use Outlook there were email programmes which did threading. I expect they are still about somewhere. That seems far more convenient than going to a dozen different web sites to see if someone has posted something interesting. Given that at least half of my email lists go quiet for days or weeks at a time abortive visits would take up a significant amount of time.
The other bugbear I have with BB systems is they each have their own editor which is usually a poor substitute for such things as Wordpad. I'd rather use the same editor for everything. Indeed there have been occassions where I've used cut and paste to transfer quotes from a BB to Wordpad, written my post and then copied the whole lot into the BB editor because it was easier than trying to do it on the website.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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