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    Private boards? —John R. Clark
   Okay, so here's a question. Is it technically possible, and/or feasible to have private, possibly password-protected boards set up? The reason I ask is that my local train club does its internal communications by email, and it is quite a burden on (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Private boards? —Dan Boger
   (...) Can't help you with lugnet, but for wamaltc and wamalug private communications, we use egroups[1]. I'm not completely happy with it, but it does allow you to run votes, store files, and manage a calander... in addition to web posting and (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Private boards? —John R. Clark
     (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Eric Joslin
     (...) FWIW, since Todd never answered, I'll poke my nose in and say that at an early NELUG meeting, we asked Todd for something similar, and he declined. I can't remember if it was a technical issue, or a Lugnet-focus issue, though. eric (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Todd Lehman
     (...) I think it was a technical issue. NNTP groups aren't easy to make private without password-protecting connections, etc. --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Eric Joslin
     (...) D'oh, right. I tend to forget that Lugnet is really a NNTP server, since I use the web connection. eric (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Todd Lehman
     (...) (d'Oh!) LUGNET is not an NNTP server. LUGNET is the international network of user-groups of LEGO products. For the benefit of LEGO users and user-groups worldwide, LUGNET runs an NNTP server on lugnet.com for NNTP news/discussion groups, an (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Eric Joslin
      (...) Gah. Don't you have a day job now, besides correcting me? :D eric (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Steve Bliss
     (...) And the server name for that NNTP service is lugnet.com. So lugnet.com is an NNTP server. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         (canceled) —Todd Lehman
    
         Re: Private boards? —Todd Lehman
     (...) Nope, lugnet.com is not an NNTP server. lugnet.com is a second-level domain name. The machine which identifies itself as lugnet.com is a FreeBSD box which is _running_ an NNTP server. (Servers are software, not hardware.) The same physical (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Private boards? —Steve Bliss
     (...) I understand what you mean, but if someone asks me what's the NNTP server for LUGNET, I'll still answer "lugnet.com". It's not news.lugnet.com, or nntp.lugnet.com, just "lugnet.com". Steve (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Private boards? —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Some groups I am in use it as well, we use many of those features and the price is great. Have you figured out how to get egroups to emit a digest of all messages still archived? We have so many messages that the web interface is a bit much, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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