Hello, Why not use an NNTP (news protocol) for forum back-end instead of a mailing list? This way, any news client can organize archive, browse the forum. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Evolution all these support news protocol. Another minor change I'd like to see is a new CSS for .code with overflow auto and maximum height so as long streams of pasted code will not stretch the forum so badly.
On 11 May 2010 16:19, leagris <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Why not use an NNTP (news protocol) for forum back-end instead of a mailing list? This way, any news client can organize archive, browse the forum. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Evolution all these support news protocol.The mailing list certainly used to have a two-way gateway to a newsgroup. Is that still in place? Does it feed the forum posts through (and back)? - d.
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 10:19 -0500, leagris wrote:> Why not use an NNTP (news protocol) for forum back-end instead of a > mailing list? This way, any news client can organize archive, browse > the forum. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Evolution all these support > news protocol. >Probably because USENET is open to all manner of spam and trolls that we can do without. A vast amount of that comes care of Google Groups. Lastly, may I remind you that USENET has no anti-spam tools apart from a killfile facility, which not all newsreaders provide. As it is, we get spam we could do without, often via the forums. In consequence my copy of SA has a fairly impressive set of custom rules that I've developed specially to deep-six spam arriving via the Wine mailing list. Martin