Well, that will most likely cut some of us work slaves from looking at the newsgroups while at work (firewall/proxy).
----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Plucker General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:36 AM Subject: Re: How about news.plkr.org? > > > And I thought, why not move away from mailing lists to a newsserver > > approach? We could have several newsgroups, development, newusers, > > plucker desktop, jpluck and other tools, urls and xsl stylesheets, or > > whatever is judged useful. > > > I don't know if David has resources to handle it but I can think of a > > couple of advantages: > > Done. I set them to moderated for the moment, until I get all of the > spam and posting rules worked out, but if you point your newsreader to > news.plkr.org, you'll see the system evolving today. I'm working on getting > the existing archived lists pushed into the newsgroups, so we can keep a > running list of mail->news from there. > > > What do you think? > > Let's try it and see, as long as it doesn't dilute the discussions > on the main mailing lists. Note, messages on the news server will not be > sent to the list (obviously), so it's a one-way mechanism, and I'm actually > pondering whether or not the news server itself should be read-only, meaning > mailing lists posts (for two of the groups) go from mail->news, and the > others (plucker.jpluck and plucker.patches) stay on the news server, and > don't get gated to the mailing lists. > > I'll work something out. Good idea, let's give it a try. > > > d. > > _______________________________________________ > plucker-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list > _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
