On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mike Kupfer wrote:
Dragan> Actually, the best interface would be the good old Dragan> usenet. Granted, there is already usenet-like interface through Dragan> gmane.org, but that one is read only. Here's the story with gmane. Currently there are 2 ways to post: either using the web fora, or via mailman. Registration is required either way. This was done to cut down on spam. So when we started getting notices from gmane about archiving opensolaris lists, I asked them to make the lists read-only.
Yes, that's fine for browsing. As long as the addresses are mangled, of course.
If we enable posting via netnews, I think that posts will be rejected by opensolaris.org unless you're registered with mailman. I thought this might cause too much confusion for people who come to OpenSolaris through gmane. I could be wrong on that, but I'd like to see some suggestions for how to handle this issue.
I am not sure if we currently have an option to subscribe to mailman based lists but not receive any mails via it. That would enable posting via gmane that would be properly handled (i.e. not rejected by mailman).
The second option I see is a dedicated news server with authentication for posting. E.g. I am using news.individual.net for my usenet activities and that one requires it:
lokrum% telnet $NNTPSERVER nntp Trying 130.133.1.4... Connected to news.individual.net. Escape character is '^]'. 200 The server welcomes lokrum.[rest deleted] Authorization required for reading and posting. quit 205 .
I agree that the traffic on the opensolaris lists is hard to keep up with. (I have over 1700 unread messages, plus several hundred more that I've glanced at and would like to take a second look at. gnus is my friend.)
I am using gnus for NNTP as well, but have no proper integration with my email as it is handled by two different machines with non-overlapping file systems.
A lot of the traffic is in opensolaris-discuss. Would it make sense to try to move some of the traffic to topic-specific lists?
You mean out of opensolaris-discuss? Good idea, but the problem is that it won't stop most of the messages anyway since S/N ratio is quite low in it.
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