On 13/10/12 00:59, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > 2012/10/12 Martin: >> On 11/10/12 17:23, Stone wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Is there a way to >> >> Read and post to the forums using nntp? >> >> #4 nntp interface/gateway >> >> There are a wealth of very good clients for reading and posting using >> the well established usenet/newsnet protocols. The available clients [...]
> This will be inevitably suboptimal because of the lack of proper > threading: most people use "reply to thread" instead of "reply to > post". Especially because the web forum doesn't show the thread level [...] Good comment. That aspect is to be expected and shouldn't be a problem. From nntp, all replies should be a reply to a post when viewed on the forums. A new message would start a new forum thread. You have one usenet group per forum. That should work fine for viewing with both a news reader and via the forums web interface. And good news readers support threading fine. And they are fast. And they have their own layouts that are customisable by the user for their pleasure and ease of use without the need for any server-side settings. > A second problem is message editing. Does NNTP support modifying or > replacing messages once clients already downloaded them? I'm asking > about both ways: an NNTP user editing a message he posted, and a web > user editing a message and having NNTP clients see the edited message. Nope. No editing from the news reader would be possible. I don't know of any extensions for doing that. From the Boinc web server, you would still have the full web forums interface as normal, including editing your own recent postings as normal. The only problem is to have some challenge response mechanism to verify that the nntp posting is from that authenticated user. Email back a confirm code that is validated by the user simply hitting 'reply', just as is done already for such as password changing? Or use GPG encryption/signing as proof of the author? I don't think we want unauthenticated posting! Got to keep the spam out... Regards, Martin -- -------------------- Martin Lomas m_boincdev ml1 co uk.ddSPAM.dd -------------------- _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
