mail-usenet gateway / web-forum (was Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community)

2008-01-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
A web forum is a nice thing to have. I haven't found one that I am comfortable with security wise. A lot of people use our archives and a small but non trivial number post via our newsgroups. Most browsers no longer ship with a built-in nntp/news protocol, though (not sure

Re: mail-usenet gateway / web-forum (was Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community)

2008-01-13 Thread Christer Solskogen
Matthew Dillon wrote: We use MHONARC to make our mailing list archives available via the web. It works very well but it is read-only. FreeBSD might want to look into it, the UI is pretty friendly. We just use google to search it. There is also something called gmane which

Re: mail-usenet gateway / web-forum (was Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community)

2008-01-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, January 13, 2008 13:32:20 -0800 Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USENET is basically dead (and has been for years), but the NNTP protocol itself is still quite nice. I never found the time to write a