[Phpwebsite-developers] New SF NNTP news server

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

Everyone,
This is great news. SourceForge is making forums available from a nntp
news server, and is planning to make mailing lists available too.


On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 23:33, SourceForge.netTeam wrote:
>   4. NNTP Beta Test
>   --------------------------
> 
> Today we are launching an early beta release of a new feature on
> SourceForge.net.  This feature makes it possible to view and post data
> to forums using a simple newsreader (exactly like using USENET
> newsgroups).  Here's the information to login and try it out.
> 
> The hostname of the NNTP server is 'nntp.sourceforge.net' and the port
> NNTP is listening on is 563. (nntps, SSL-protected NNTP)
> 
> We allow only SSL connections.
> 
> You need to use your SourceForge user name and password to login.
> 
> The currently supported clients are Mozilla and Outlook, however we've
> followed the NNTP RFC; any client that does NNTP over SSL /should/
> work.  Please let us know if you have problems with a specific client.
> (Please see below)
> 
> Posting works, with one caveat: to limit SPAM we limit the amount of
> posts to 10 in a 5 minute period, after which we deny posting for some
> time for that user account.
> 
> NOTE: This is real data. Posts will show up in your forums!  
> 
> Please keep this in mind.
> 
> Here is an example of the NNTP naming we've chosen, it is much like
> the project web tree. "sf.a.al.alexandria.open_discussion" will get
> you the "Open Discussion" forum for project "alexandria".
> 
> Mailing lists are currently _not_ available but will be available in
> the near future.
> 
> If you would like to report bugs, ideas, or anything else please
> subscribe to the beta mailing list at:
> 
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mcgoo-nttpbeta
> 
> Please keep in mind that the server is beta and will more than likely
> crash.  Please don't send 1000 emails to list saying the server is
> offline; we'll fix it as soon as we get a chance.  Please send any bug
> reports, odd behavior, or problems to this list.  Thank you.
> Issue reports regarding this new beta feature should not be submitted
> as Support Requests; please direct all inquiries to the list.

-- 
Mike Noyes <mh...@us...>
http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
http://leaf-project.org/