Re: NNTP Server

2005-07-30 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:02:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I hope not. Sometimes I am out of town and want to catch up. I don't > like or have a notebook computer and sometimes am limited to using > someone else's machine, perhaps with some other operating system. Being > able to do a sub

Re: NNTP Server

2005-07-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > NNTP stuff has caused us a number of problems over time. It therefore > might just be more economical to ditch the whole thing. Watch this space! I hope not. Sometimes I am out of town and want to catch up. I don't like or have a notebook computer and sometimes am lim

Re: NNTP Server

2005-07-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Joachim Beckers wrote: What do you mean with "a while"? Is it like a whole week or just a couple of hours? Depends on whether my planned approach works. If I've thought about things correctly, it should be a couple of hours. Having said that, the NNTP stuff has caused us a number of proble

Re: NNTP Server

2005-07-30 Thread Joachim Beckers
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote: > >> Is there any realistic expectation that the facility to write to the >> lists via the NNTP service will be fixed? There is also a suggestion >> that it might be withdrawn. > > I came up with a plan that may well have fixed NNTP, but have bee

Re: NNTP Server

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard A Downing wrote: > Is there any realistic expectation that the facility to write to the > lists via the NNTP service will be fixed? There is also a suggestion > that it might be withdrawn. > > I ask, since I'm updating the text in the BLFS book, and I want to > accurately reflect the true

Re: NNTP Server

2005-07-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
Richard A Downing wrote: Is there any realistic expectation that the facility to write to the lists via the NNTP service will be fixed? There is also a suggestion that it might be withdrawn. I came up with a plan that may well have fixed NNTP, but have been too busy to get around to it. As i