On 19/06/2019 16.01, Per Jessen wrote:
George Baltz wrote:
Is there any interest in resurrecting the NNTP access to the forums?
Hi George
Yes, we are trying to set something up.
Anyone else asking for it?
I have heard it mentioned that we have an active community on nttp, it would be a pity cutting them off.
What sort of resources were used? Is there an image of the old server? Was it stock INN, or customized?
It was/is Novell Typhoon. That's all I know.
Was the gateway built in house? Any doc/info on this particular setup available?
Pretty much what I've been asking too :-)
Jim is the person to ask about the gateway. I suspect the code lives at the web forum side.
I'm not sure of the demand/effort requirements for the service, but I'd like to look into it.
Carlos is trying to get inn running, I'm sure your experience will come in very handy. He'll probably pick on this thread.
Yep, here I am. So far what I have done is download the message database, slowly, to a virtual machine at home using leafnode. I did it past week, and today again because yesterday an automatic process deleted all old messages. So I have a copy. I will do a tgz of it. Just about 4.5GB, not much, for the opensuse.org structure only. And then I have another virtual machine, at home, in which I intend to practice with inn. I have to say that I have no experience with inn. I only have available time to help. So yes, certainly help to set it up would be very nice. Or directly doing it :-) Besides that, without a machine of some sort at opensuse.org nothing much can be done... I tried yesterday to post to the nntp/forum server a status followup message, but it was rejected, no idea why. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)