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Re: Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:48:30 GMT
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:56:08PM +0000, Suz wrote:
> (Actually, If any of you are feeling ambitious, I'd love a little
> "cheat sheet" lowdown/summary on what we have determined and how we
> feel about nntp.)
Well, didn't we decide that we all love it? :)
> I'm trying to complete a report addressed to potential new site owners
> that lists our (we LUGNET users') concerns for the future. I'd like
> for it to include a wishlist with suggestions. In the case of NNTP, I
> might have a couple bullet points like: NNTP is priority level "X" and
> here are a few suggestions for simplified support.
I think it's a really nice feature to have (and a great differential
between LUGNET and other boards), but for me, SMTP support is more
important than NNTP. Not just because that's what I use (*grin*), but
because everyone these days knows how to use email, and sadly, NNTP does
have a higher barrier of entry. Once you do learn about it, it's
awesome though.
> Do -any- of you know of anyone/anything/anyplace that can help? (Yes,
> that was an intentionally vague question, sorry.)
I think we might be able to find many volunteers that want to help. But
requiring someone full-time poses a really big problem, as far as I can
tell.
> I still am curious if rss-to-nntp converters are any good. I'm
> guessing they're not because the rss feeds do not come with enough
> info to take advantage of a typical newsreader's more powerful
> features. Am I correct? Anyone tried it? I admit, I have not.
Not sure what an RSS-to-NNTP converter would do? An RSS (or atom) feed
only shows the last X messages, while an NNTP client expects to be able
to ask the server for an arbitrary range of messages in a group? And
yes, RSS doesn't have the context information that allows proper
threading, but that should be pretty easy to add.
> Is there any such thing as a beefy rss feed?
Beefy with context info? Not that I know. And not dynamic (that can
allow you to see messages 50-95 in .general), AFAIK.
I'm not sure which problem we're trying to solve though - RSS/SMTP/NNTP
all serve similar, but different needs.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) Yes, difficult to find a full-time individual who would be available for the duration of any significant (re)development. Also probably hard to find a part-time manager dedicated enough to oversee work done by many. I have received some offers (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Thank you, thank you! I am so happy with the responses and discussion in this thread. It's great for me to hear all your views and to learn so much in a hurry. Some of it's over my head. ..I'll still need to read the posts carefully, and take (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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