Identifying subscriber comments

Posted Nov 22, 2004 20:03 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: A followup on comment policy

The problem with web boards, compared to Usenet or mail, is that users can't filter by User-Agent.

In my experience, most of the noise in Linux fora on Usenet and in mail comes from people using non-Linux clients. While some fora just filter out non-Linux clients (with mind-boggling success) just identifying the client from which a post came and giving the reader the option of filtering could be a positive step.

Identifying subscriber comments

Posted Nov 23, 2004 7:50 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

I wonder how many people read LWN from work accounts which are forced to use non-Linux clients?

I know I usually read the weekly edition on Thursday lunchtime, and all I have access to there is (ick) IE, so far.

Identifying subscriber comments

Posted Nov 23, 2004 8:50 UTC (Tue) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

Bingo. I could live without it though.