Bring back nntp access

DHLipman wrote: Bring back NNTP access !!

I couldn't put it any better.

DorothyK@Adobe wrote: A lot of people have also suggested developing an AIR app to mimic NNTP for people.Forum Project

With all due respect I don't see the point in recreating something, that's simple by design and readily available, in a proprietary technology. It just adds a whole layer of complexity.

To wit: just before, when I hit "Reply" here, the interface took a long time to load and finally crashed my browser FF 3. I don't recall that ever happening in my newsreader. If I have to wait and hold my breath every time posting here then I feel my time is wasted. Of course only those that have actually ever used a newsreader for some time, will be able to understand the issue.

I totally agree with what Ian said.

Yesterdays thread on this topic:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/414965?tstart=30

I do not find the public domain argument to be very satisfying.  I think if some bean counter thinks the purpose of these forums is to build some body of content that can be packaged and controlled, then that person is very narrow minded.

The purpose of these forums has always been for US - the user community to share and support each other.  This saves Adobe money by providing a place where people can get answers to basic to moderately complex problems without having to use expensive human resources paid for by Adobe.  It also builds the good will of Adobe products in that there is a place where somebody can go and get problems solved, often quickly and easily, before they become a festering sore in a developers mind that motivates them to look for a different software solution for their tasks.

NNTP allowed a lot of very knowledgable people to be very helpful when they had a few spare moment in thier day.  They could quickly scan their news reader inbox for new topics that they can help.  Then they could quickly fire off a reply within the reader and move on to the next message.  All this without having to wait for a browser to render a lot of JavaScript and DHTML over and over again for each and every message and reply.

The email system could be a lesser substitue for this functionality if it worked correctly.  But, to date, my experience with it has been less then encouraging.  The mesages are comming in all jumbled up, the subects have these long, unimportant strings "[ColdFusion and Flash Integrations] New message:" prepended to them so that I can not easily tell what they are.  The emails do not properly follow the email RFC standard so that my email reader can properly thread the messages, thus I can not easily follow in topics in any given forum.  I just get a random quote that is meainingless without context and the only way to get that context seems to be to fire up a browser.  Replying to them is problematic where I have seen my and other users messages completely dissapear when processed by this system, resulting in a blank box for a reply.

I was a long time NNTP user that enjoyed helping my fellow ColdFusion developers on these forums whenever I had a few free moments in my day.  But I do not forsee myself sticking it out for very long in this new forum if there is not some improvment, or at least some communication or acknowlegement of some hope for improvement, from the powers that be.  All we seem to get is that there is no NNTP, there are no plans for NNTP, the email does not work as expected, but there is no acknowlegement of what, if anything, is going to be done about that either.

I know that I am not alone in this manner.  I know that those that are most vocal about this issue where some of the most knowlegable and frequently helpful people of the previous forums and I just can not imagine how the quality of this resource is going to be improved by their loss, no matter how subjectivily pretty the new web interface is juged to be.

I give myself another day or two to see if I can somehow make this work, then I will move on and check back in a few months to a year to see if anything has improved.