drazaelb@yahoo.com (Jason Bleazard) wrote in
<20001114213613.13226.qmail@web4005.mail.yahoo.com>:
>--- Jon <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote:
>> Yep, just working on getting this up and running. When its
>> set up, the list will be mirrored on a private newsgroup, and
>> posts to the list can be made either to the list as usual or to
>> the newsgroup, and they'll show up in both places no matter
>> where they were posted from.
>>
>> Should help out those folks who want to contribute but can't
>> handle actually downloading all of the mail...
>
>Cool! I'm not familiar with private newsgroups. I assume that's to
>keep the spammers off? How does it work (username / password to
>connect to the server, or what)? Nosy hackers want to know.
Yep, mainly to try to cut down on spam... Many moons ago, the list
was "mirrored" (one way) to a news server, then subsequently got sucked in (by
dejanews I think) and the spam started to pour in... This way, there
is a usercode and a password (both public) but it isn't shared or transferred
to anyone else. (Controllable now since I run the NNTP server) :-)
I'm going to set it up initially such that posting is open (you don't have to
be subscribed anywhere to post), but if that becomes a problem, I'll implement
a "subscribe/unsubscribe" scheme for the newsgroup.
>Come to think of it, this will also let us read DML both at home and
>work without using a web based e-mail like Yahoo. I like it...
Yep! :-) The threading should be nice too...
---Jon-
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