On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Tim Starling<tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Austin Hair wrote: >> My ideal, personally, is something more like nntp--and while I'm >> perfectly happy to turn over the list to some other technology, I >> don't know that this is the magic solution, and I agree with Tim that >> it risks killing what good we do have with the existing methods. > > I like NNTP too. It has postmoderation, so while you might not be able > to authenticate posts, you can at least cancel any that fall outside > the rules. It's an open standard which predates the web, and lots of > tools and clients have been developed over the years to make use of > its many features. It has built-in support for distribution and > mirroring. It integrates well with email and lots of organisations run > bidirectional gateways.
I agree. The mozilla newsgroups are a good example. http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmozilla Another benefit is that the mailing list archives can be easily moved to the news server, keeping the history intact. > However, it has largely been forgotten. Most internet users have never > heard of it and they don't know how to read it, except when they're > shown a web gateway. Mobile developers have apparently never heard of > it either, despite the fact that its lightweight nature and time-worn > support for low-memory systems should make it a perfect fit. > > For postmoderation to work, most people would have to be using NNTP > directly, or a web gateway, instead of an email gateway. We'd have to > evangelise the clients, say in a footer in outgoing emails. > > A quick google search turns up the following NNTP clients for mobile > platforms: > > Java: http://mobilenews.sourceforge.net/ > iPhone: http://inewsgroup.googlecode.com/ > Windows: http://www.qusnetsoft.ru/ Google groups is a web gateway to NNTP. I've not tried it from a mobile, but I expect it would be usable. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
