>>>Adrian: How about going to NNTP?
>
>Alain: I am not against the idea but, when I suggested
>something similar several months ago, the suggestion
>was flatly rejected.
>
>> Mark: No thanks. NNTP is spam rich,
>> and majordomo isn't nearly as bad.
>
>Alain: So I am told.
Uli: Back then the suggestion was to go to a Usenet newsgroup. This would
have been an open group which hundreds of e-mail-hunters send their robots
to on a daily basis (I recently resumed newsgroups and got a UCE for a
"face-slapping contest" -- Duh!). If we created an NNTP thingamabob on
Alain's Server, this would solve this problem, as we could select who is
allowed in and who isn't.
>> Mark: (hint: http://www.forumsamerica.com/Macintosh/)
>> Personally, I love what interaction.in-progress.com
>> can do. I crave a chat with A.I.
Uli: I never got ForumsAmerica to display any messages to me. Only empty
forums. Also, it only has a web interface, which means I can't use it
offline (while MacSOUP and others let me do that with NNTP).
>Alain: I have heard this about news, too. It is
>precisely the contrary of what I thought news groups
>are all about. I thought it was a idea/document
>publishing environment. Posts that are more like
>essays and/or with replies that are editorial-like.
>Scientific exchanges at the international-journals
>level of discourse.
Uli: NNTP isn't much different from e-mail. It just has built-in thread
grouping. Basically they all base on FTP.
Uli: Just one thing regarding MetaCard's server: We're only guests here,
and I think we'd be pushing the envelope if we asked Scott for more lists.
Not that he wouldn't give it, he's so nice and polite that I'm afraid he'd
actually do it, but it'd be better if we tried to look for another server
when we need more lists.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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