Herman Slagman wrote: >"Denver Braughler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> There is no rule the the From: has to appear in clear text >> in a public newsgroup hosted on a privately owned server. No - but I would dread it if ISC (or anyone else) starts hacking in my >From address (or body text for that matter). There are several ways to deal with spam; one is to always use a fake email address, another is to ignore it (and rely on spam filters as much as possible). I choose the latter option. I don't want that choice made for me. If you want a munched email address appearing on the NG, just use one. >The fact that ISC has chosen not to use the public newsgroup servers gives >them (and us) a lot more possibilities. I wonder what made them decide to do that. Nevertheless, I find the current setup very satisfactory: ISC keeps *all* posts ever made to the NG, and I can request all of them to store/search locally. In fact, my newsreader has a local copy of every post in this NG. >There are a lot more sophisticated groupware/knowledgeware tools available >then an archaic newsserver, with features for searching, grouping, filtering >and sharing information. Google is a very satisfactory tool for searching newsgroups. Unfortunately, they don't index non-Usenet news (AFAIK). It would be nice if ISC mirrored the NG (perhaps write-only) to a Usenet group in the alt hierarchy, so Google would index the posts. While the news server is old (and proven!) technology, my reader has an interface that I'm happy and comfortable with, and allows me to read offline if I need to. The group/knowledgeware programs that I have seen (not that many, I admit) have not impressed me much. >One of your complaints about large or binary attachments could easily be >managed by those tools: download is then an option. Many news readers offer the option of not downloading posts larger than a certain size or number of lines. >How much I appreciate Peter's archive or Rob's or Sukesh's initiatives for >sharing Cache knowledge, it should be facilitated by ISC. Perhaps something like that will happen in the future, but these sites (and don't forget Ramon's!) don't replace a newsgroup. Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein
