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Re: Forum shift
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:23:56 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> Benjamin Ellermann wrote:
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> > The PHPbb forum format seems to be the most widely used type across
> > the spectrum of fan sites.
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> But that doesn't have an NNTP port, does it? Or email digests? I find
> reading lugnet through a news reader (Outlook Express, XanaNews, whatever)
> is a much better experience than trying to read EuroBricks, for example.
> There's a much better overview, I can see for each subforum where there are
> new posts, if I use XanaNews I can wath threads, color threads I'm
> participating in in a separate color, yet another color when someones has
> replied to one of my posts, etc. Try getting all that i a web forum, and
> *fast* at the same time...
My main sticking point with NNTP is the authentication emails. They are
annoying, very annoying but unavoidable due to the inherent spoofing problems
with NNTP.
-Orion
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Forum shift
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| (...) There's no f*#$ing reason for authentication emails. NNTP has a good and fine password authentication mechanism built in. Jacob (14 years ago, 29-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Forum shift
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| (...) As of just a few days ago, I've been a LUGNET member for 10 years. In that time I've posted hundreds of messages, and I've never once had to use any kind of "authentication email." I'm not sure what you're doing wrong to get something like (...) (14 years ago, 30-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Forum shift
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| (...) But that doesn't have an NNTP port, does it? Or email digests? I find reading lugnet through a news reader (Outlook Express, XanaNews, whatever) is a much better experience than trying to read EuroBricks, for example. There's a much better (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)
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