Maybe it is easier to understand if I take two examples:
Yesterday I wrote a detailed description about the freeware language
RapidQ, which I happen to know a lot about and really want to
recommend, I gave links to usergroups and download sites, etc..
The other example could be if I dig up a thousand links to swedish
freeware programs which I know little about. Some may be in english,
other only in swedish, some may be real freeware, other may be
timelimited or crippled versions, some may be very valuable and some
may be useless.
Would you like me to post a thousand messages with links to these
programs in a.c.f, or ten very long messages with links to these
programs,
The former.
or would you prefer that I put these links on my web site
Useless for people reading this newsgroup offline.
and post a message about it where I give a link to the list on my web
site so those who are interested can look them up, download the ones
that sounds interesting, and try them out?
Far faster to read them here.
I would definitely prefer if people who have such lists publish just a
link to the list instead of a thousand messages, one for each link.
Yes, we have read enough of this idiotic thread by now to know what
you want. You don't care about all the extra work involved in coding
web pages and then uploading them.
Now a question for you. What is faster/easier ?
(A) Doing a single large post here ?
or
(B) Coding the above to a web page and uploading it. Then making a
post here to tell everyone where the page is.
(A) or (B) ?
Most people who have been on the internet for > 5 minutes would
probably know the answer is (A).
Then your argument becomes a single post versus many posts. As there
is minimal difference in bandwidth and as most prefer single posts
that is a no-brainer as well.
Regards, John.
