Re: [Cooker] NNTP

[Andrew Morton]

Michael Irving wrote:
> 
> It wouldn't be possible to move the cooker list to a news server.. would be a
> hell of a lot easier to follow the threads :)
> 
> After all linux does threads so well :)

Please, no.

If it's not a Usenet group then it makes life hell for those who live
behind firewalls.  

For example, Linuxworld.com have a news server for their discussion
forums and they get many, many requests to provide a web gateway so
firewalled people can get at them.

Ditto news.mozilla.org.