On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 01:07:14PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Bill Bogstad wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:53 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Bill Bogstad wrote: > I had no idea what "Eternal September" meant
So for years and years, September meant that a new crop of freshmen would arrive at colleges and universities and hop onto Usenet for the first time. And most of that month would be spent pointing people at FAQs and offering them netiquette pointers. By October, newsgroups were pretty much back to the high signal/noise ratio that they would spend the next ten months enjoying. Then AOL opened bidirectional Usenet gateways, and that was the September that never ended. > >>I would actually run a separate server and do a outbound only link to the > >>USENET side (is USENET still around as a cohernet thing?) Yes, in limited pockets of careful communities. > >I haven't looked at NNTP clients in a long while and am not sure if > >any of them work well in > >a disconnected fashion. There is something called "leafnode" that > >might help with that for the > >technically inclined. :-) It even had a new release in 2013. > > My understanding is that the advantage of NNTP over e-mail is the > better support for disconnected use. It used to be. Nowadays I would consider an imapsync spool to be very similar in terms of usability. > Baen's Bar (bar.baen.com) has this setup with all three interfaces > available, but without any direct gateway to USENET, just an > indenpendent NNTP server. I think it requires that the userid > posting via NNTP be one that's registered (it requires that mail > users also be registered). It hasn't had any noticable problems with > spam and is far more active than the LOPSA lists are (except for > days like today :-) That's a common pattern, too. INN is still around, still being updated, and the hardware resources which were a major investment in 1995 are easily handled by a $40/month virtual server these days. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
