I think you're being pretentious a little bit.
A good usenet implementation is *closer* to a forum, which is what you want. But forums are a different (more dynamic) use case. With smaller entry barriers to large amounts of content.
--Sean
Somebody claiming to be Samuel Baldwin wrote:
quoted text > 2009/10/11 Mic J <michael.cognacc@gmail.com>:
> > Why is that better?
>
> Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated
> into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy
> place for garbage "off-topic" discussion, because your mailbox is
> where messages can be threaded properly, because there are no avatars
> or forum stats or ranks or administrators or moderators to create
> politics, because they're low overhead and easy accessible, because
> low-traffic mailing lists still catch everyone's attention where a
> low-traffic forum will eventually be ignored by the users... so on and
> so forth. There's bound to be a bunch of sites or archived
> rants/debates about this.
>
> If it helps, compare your average forum goer with your average mailing
> list denizen. That alone should be enough...
>
> --
> Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
