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Re: [PLUG] Wouldn't a news service be more appropriate?
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Rebecca Ore <rebecca@ogoense.net> writes:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Joe Coyle wrote:
>> Has the group ever considered using a news server? It seems obvious that
>> the news server format would give easier access to the valuable information
>> produced by the PLUG discussions. Postings would be neatly sorted by
>> thread, and the subject line could be changed to reflect a new posting's
>> content without disrupting the thread. Basic ground rules on "reply
>> quoting" would also be useful in reducing the clutter. My two cents.
>
> Chris Beggy has done some mail to news gating, I think. Don't know who else
> would interested in running a private hieararchy.
I already gateway plug, for all of the reasons listed by Joe, and
the additional desire to avoid multiple subscriptions and to have
the option to auto-expire old messages.
> You might want to try Gnus for mail -- it can be set to expire mail just as
> though it was a news group. (Don't ask me how -- I haven't set this up
> myself). Mutt works well enough, though I have to thin things myself.
gnus twists everything into newsgroups, including mail, slashdot,
folder search results, archives at mail-archive.com, and google
search results. Gnus is proof that "if your only tool is a
hammer, every problem looks like a nail."
Chris
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