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[der Mouse]

> Yes, I know it would require a modern web browser.  Is this the Civil
> War re-enactor list?  Are my buttons and hardtack not authentic
> enough?  Why the emotional attraction to a mailing list as opposed to
> the web?

Speaking entirely personally - because it's better.

(A) It doesn't require me to go check it; the mail shows up in my
    mailbox along with all my other mail, rather than making me go
    check N different web fora, N being the number of such lists I am
    on.

(B) The interface is uniform across them all, and is chosen by *me*, by
    my choice of MUA, not chosen according to someone else's idea of
    what looks good or works well, and different for each forum.

(C) And if it truly does "require a modern web browser" (meaning some
    GUI horror instead of something like lynx), there are additional
    problems.

(C.i) It requires mouse use, rather than being purely keyboard driven.

(C.ii) It generally cannot be gotten out of reverse video (looking at
    reverse video for any significant time is quite uncomfortable for
    me, since I use a self-luminant display technology) and if it can
    it usually breaks the inteface design badly.

(C.iii) They're big and bloated (lynx, source alone, is nearly twice as
    big as my whole MUA including compiled binaries, and I don't even
    want to think about a "modern" web browser).

(C.iv) "requires a modenr web browser" usually means "requires gaping
    security holes like ActiveX or JavaScript", which are totally
    unacceptable.

(C.v) Web browser text input fields are _not_ an acceptable substitute
    for a real text editor - especially not *my choice of* text editor
    (this harks back to point (B)).

There are probably others, but any one of those is reason enough to me.

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