* Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-20 21:41]: > I still think feeding the lists to a dedicated news server could be the > cleanest approach to providing a way to read the messages by list in > a threaded manner. Either the groups could be read-only, or (my preference, > since I'd rather not use an email interface for something like this) they > could be auto-moderated (must be able to be associated with a registered > email address), or else the server could require authentication (with one's > os.o account and password, I suppose).
Is there an NNTP server that offers this sort of posting policy? > That would IMO be a lot cleaner, and more scalable (even a wimpy news > server can probably handle more messages per day than the opensolaris.org > lists are ever likely to see). And with reasonably fast clients that > can be configured to cache headers (I like knews, myself), it can be much > better performing for people with relatively slow network access (which > could be common with worldwide participation). Or if enough folks can't > resist the temptation to post HTML, Thunderbird or Mozilla would probably > be ok too. Although it's not high on my infrastructure list (which is mostly about development and governance at the moment), I don't have a problem with running a news server eventually. (I am nervous about running news, mail, and web forums in fully gatewayed fashion, however...) - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
