Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Josh Berkus <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damon.

> What I don't understand is why not use nntp instead of e-mail.  IMHO
> it seems that this provides the best of both worlds.  Now I am not
> suggesting the traditional usenet group but something like what Borland
> uses for their groups.  Borland runs their own nntp server that isn't
> part of the rest of the usenet world.  There is not that high noise level
> that plagues the rest of usenet.

This is a very good idea.    Google is also quite good at indexing NNTP.

What I'm suggesting is that we need a place where users with occasional 
problems, and a 2mb mailbox, can visit to a) search for posted solutions, and 
b) post a question without committing themselves to 400 e-mails a week.

An NNTP hosted by SuSE would be an excelent fit to that.   There are already 
NNTP-to-Mailing list crossover software (we use them on PostgreSQL all the 
time) and NNTP-to-Web readers for those poor Comcast subscribers with no NNTP 
support.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco