-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-12-31 at 10:26 +0100, jdd sur free wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On news servers the administrator can also delete postings. I'm unsure if that will stop clients from posting again to that same OT thread if they have a local copy, though.
on news server, there is nothing like "local copy" (unless you make a save), so it's no more possible to anwser a cancelled message.
No, the client can have a full copy of what is (or was) at the upstream news server. Mozilla can do that. More, you can have your local mirror news server, using package "leafnode". That's what I call client local copy. I'm not sure that what is deleted upstream is also deleted on client copies. That's the point I was wondering about.
do think at the differences between news and mail:
* news are online reading. one must be online to use the forum. This allow the owner or a moderator to cancel a message. Mail are off line reading, so posts sent are kept by the receiver. this is cheaper as for connection cost, the receiver can keep a copy of the message. The owner have to keep a copy of all messages if he wants to be able to answer an old message
News can be off-line reading as well. That's what I used leafnode for when I was on dial-up. I run "fetchnews" from the ip-up script and disconnected. I answered using pine or mozilla or whatever, and my answers were sent the next time I connected. This is linux, everything is possible ;-)
* with news it's the server that archives the messages, usually for a limited time (1 month, frequently), so anybody coming in the middle of a discussion can read and answer. mails can be archived by the server, but in openSUSE one mails are obfuscated and it's impossible to answer neither on the list neither to the original poster
That's the typical use, but the users can also keep their local copy with different deletion policy.
anyway, if most of the users agreed, it's very easy to test it for a limited period of time and to make a decision afterward.
As I don't participate there, it's up to you all. I only wanted to mention some points.
news is not yet used by openSUSE, it's a shame, this is a very old and very nice tool :-)
True. It is used by Novell, by the way (support-forums.novell.com). There are some opensuse groups there, with messages stored for two years that I can see. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFl9a8tTMYHG2NR9URAg1nAJ9kP0+Q0KnIgvoEBZ0kmaBYnukDGwCfSRfD Osuy/dgxGUUjEnrdqS+ER4g= =oeI9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org