Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:20 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail<->usenet gateway / web-forum (was Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community) Message-ID: <AE5325D4649B46D5F76CC77B@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200801132132.m0DLWKfc091233@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <200801131107.15267.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <B9F176E9-9527-42A1-90FC-DE5AC8EB7746@caustic.org> <200801131559.32933.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1763386364.20080113091014@lacave.net> <200801132132.m0DLWKfc091233@apollo.backplane.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, January 13, 2008 13:32:20 -0800 Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> 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 web-based forum using an NNTP backend. If anyone knows of such a > beast, please email me! I don't agree ... the PostgreSQL community gets a fair amount of traffic from USENET through its gateway, *but*, we do have MAIA in place to keep the spam off the lists, so what we get to the actual mailing lists through it is only the signal, no noise at all ... I'd definitely prefer to read freebsd.* newsgroups then deal with mailing lists ... - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHiq7A4QvfyHIvDvMRAgQbAKCLyHTeRK5vEsQYF54YPUjz+XC3nwCgo+Mb C5iVshI6IlOoFDe+YYEPAeY= =fRLK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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