Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

Arthur Pemberton dalive at flashmail.com
Mon Feb 7 21:48:47 UTC 2005


Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2005-02-07 12:59, William Hooper whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
>
>> Michael W. Carney said:
>>  
>>
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>>> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> |
>>> | And the Really Great Thing [tm] about using the NNTP protocol as a 
>>> base
>>> | is that there *are* good news-to-mail and news-to-web gateway 
>>> software
>>> | packages! So if the base is NNTP, you can use a newsreader, mail 
>>> client,
>>> | or browser (whichever you prefer) to get the messages any way you
>>> like. |
>>> | What's not to like?
>>>
>>>
>>> Nothing. Let's *PLEASE* to to a fedora-private nntp system for the
>>> fedora community "groups". Using mail lists for the community has 
>>> been and
>>> continues to be torture.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> There are already two ways of viewing this list via NNTP, why do we need
>> another?
>>
>> As previously mentioned, gmane.org carries the Fedora lists.  I also go
>> reminded (thanks to Pete Zaitcev's Blog) that Red Hat also already 
>> runs an
>> NNTP gateway (news://news.redhat.com/).
>>
>> Anyone wishing to test a "news-to-web" gateway would do well to start
>> there tests with one of those two.
>>  
>>
> Agreed.  The only problem with the gmane.org news is that it doesn't 
> seem to propagate postings to it backwards to the list, only from the 
> list to the newsgroup.  OTOH, if we all just stopped using the list 
> and just used the newsgroup....
>
> Is there any good reason that we continue with the mail list when the 
> newsgroup seems to work so much better?  I suppose it depends a little 
> on your connection speed, your ISP (POP3 or IMAP)  and your  mail/news 
> reader software.  But I think it makes a lot more sense to download 
> just the headers and then pick the articles you wish to see, than 
> having to download everything (as in POP3).

Pardon my ignorance, but why are newsgroups so much better? and how do I 
go abotu accessing the fedora newsgroups?




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