From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 00:53:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBB816A469; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:53:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D2B13C461; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:53:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD0E11FDD12; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75563-04; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from fserv.hub.org (blk-7-245-234.eastlink.ca [71.7.245.234]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9A911FDCCC; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by fserv.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88828CB02; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:59 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:37:20 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Matthew Dillon Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200801132132.m0DLWKfc091233@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <200801131107.15267.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200801131559.32933.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1763386364.20080113091014@lacave.net> <200801132132.m0DLWKfc091233@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:53:52 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, January 13, 2008 13:32:20 -0800 Matthew Dillon 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-----