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Re: Very strange server behavior today
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:34:32 GMT
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Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
> "Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message
> news:K5urGL.Gxy@lugnet.com...
> > I know many of you are relying on the NNTP service to read and post
> > LUGNET news.
> > That's entirely fine. However I found a small number of IP addresses
> > basically
> > generating so much traffic that the system was next to unusable.
> > What's worse,
> > after a couple of weeks without significant email outages, the email
> > service
> > also stopped working, so you may find posts sent through email or
> > the web and
> > waiting for authentication to be delayed.
>
> If this continues to be a problem I would recommend that LUGNET
> should go into a completely web-based server setup. Allowing for the
> initial time to setup the service so bots can't get into it, this
> should significantly reduce posting problems and elimination of the
> email-based web authentication would allow people to post messages
> quicker and without having to rely on email servers that don't
> respond as expected.
Oh, please no. The web interface has no way to keep track of read posts
other than your browser's memory of visited URLs.
No web based forum has yet to provide the flexibility to keep track of what
I have read and what I have not read (and what I want to remember to
re-read - so I mark it unread again) that a news reader provides. Plus, a
news reader lets me decide which forums to keep track of.
Frank
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 | | Re: Very strange server behavior today
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| (...) I should like to point out (again), that I was already quite fond of the approach the LUGNET implementation took back when I was just one of many happy users and didn't have the slightest idea I might become one of LUGNET's admins one day. (...) (16 years ago, 23-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Very strange server behavior today
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| (...) I agree that NNTP is the best way, but I haven't used NNTP for a long time. Ever since FTX was allowed in posts, it's been pretty useless because you can't see the images and other FTX enhanced aspects of messages through NNTP or email. (16 years ago, 24-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Very strange server behavior today
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| "Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:K5urGL.Gxy@lugnet.com... (...) If this continues to be a problem I would recommend that LUGNET should go into a completely web-based server setup. Allowing for the initial time to (...) (16 years ago, 20-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)
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