[Nottingham] Too much traffic

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Robert Davies wrote:


> There would have to be a central news server or it makes no sense.
> But that needs someone willing to host it, and administer it.

Yep. May be we should vote on it.
All those in favour of <random victim>James Dobson</random victim>
hosting and administering it say Aye !


> The Mail to News gateway has to handle posts made on the News side and
> forward them to the list.
>

What I meant was...(not meant to be patronising)

As it stands mail to the list is authenticated vs subscriber e-addresses.  If the sender isn't known the message lands on Godfrey's lap to deal with as he sees fit.

If someone were to post via the news gateway we would need to have their email address to authenticate against but if we have it then they will be receiving the list by email which is what they are trying to avoid ;)

Maybe a news gateway can do clever things with mail headers to get round this.  I don't know.

> I don't see bandwidth as the issue, it's more user convenience.
> Netscape/Mozilla include a threading news reader so that ought to help those
> condemned to use poor email or webmail clients from work.
>

At home I use mhMail and as often as not 'less' to read with.  It has no threading, mail often arrives out of sync and if I want to get at an attatchment I have to squidge it though mhn/metamail.
It doesn't bother me because I don't really care.  Hence I'm probably not the best person to comment on MUA's.

Have fun,
Duncan

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