On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Bill Bogstad wrote:
That's easy. Run separate servers, and if you share the groups, require
members of your NNTP trust circle to do the same. There are several
historical and extant examples.
It's not clear to me that you would want to do so, rather than
make it a public group and ask gwene to gateway it for people
who want web/archive access.
Usually LOPSA groups have a pretty good signal/noise ratio. My concern
would be that unmoderated, publicly distributed newsgroups which were
bidirectionally gatewayed to the mailing lists would be subject to the
"Eternal September" problem. As simply a way to access the archive
(or participate in a readonly) mode, it might be useful. Alternatively.
making it a moderated, public newsgroup on the USENET side would
alleviate my concerns.
Please explain a bit more. Why would the LOPSA NNTP feed have any worse a
signal-to-noise ratio?
I would actually run a separate server and do a outbound only link to the USENET
side (is USENET still around as a cohernet thing?)
But that would require someone to be a more active moderator then I think
we currently have. In the old days, it might have boosted LOPSA's visibility
among younger demographics; but I have no idea if it would matter today. I'm
really not sure if NNTP based newsgroups would be a good fit for LOPSA's needs
or not. I just wanted to point out that there are other technologies
that, although tainted
by how they have been sometmes used, may still have advantages. If it
wouldn't boost
LOPSA's visibility, I'm not sure the advantages would outweigh the effort.
The interesting thing is that to get a good mailing list <-> web forum
integration, every approach I know of ends up with a NNTP feed as a side effect,
so if we are going to have one, why not make it available for those who want it?
David Lang
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