On Thursday 01 July 2010 19:37:03 DenverD wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
[sent later]
On 2010-06-29 21:52, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:57:35 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Perhaps what is needed is a read-only nntp group with quick help tips such as what is appropriate on each forum/group, how to post, etc. I think I saw some tips (I'm talking out of year-old memories) on the web interface, but I don't see them on NNTP.
We try to make the names pretty self-descriptive; many newsreaders can read a description field (it's optional in the RFC as I recall) that gives a text description of the group. I don't know if the server we use can present that, but I think it can.
I don't recall seeing it. Hovering the mouse pointer over the names do not show a description in thunderbird, so either the server doesn't send it or Th. doesn't use it. But I have a foggy recollection of seeing descriptions with leafnode.
perhaps that info could be incorporated into the info at http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate with the same level of detail as is provided for say Mailing List, IRC etc.. ??
for example, maybe something like the following with one for each forum/sub:
------sample-------- Install/Boot/Login - Questions about installation, login, boot issues, partitioning, file systems, software that runs at boot (GRUB, LILO, boot scripts). Join us via HTTP at [link] or via NNTP at [link]. ------end sample--------
since the descriptive words are found at the top of the first page of each form, populating an info set similar to that available for ML is mostly just a matter of copy/paste..
In the mailing list section, there are only two mailing lists - out of 30+ - mentioned. If you want to add one or two subs to the list, fine - but if you want to list all of them, I propose to have a separate Page in the wiki with detailed contents. Let's keep the Communicate page short with good pointers.
HOWEVER i do not see that that /Communicate page is slated for movement to the new wiki.... ??? It is, please check again,
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126