Re: Webmin Newsgroups?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

I guess the only advantages of a newsgroup are that some people
prefer using news clients rather than mail clients, and that it
avoids cluttering up people's mailboxes. However, a newsgroup that
is not a replica of the mailing list would just lead to the unnecessary
splitting of discussions between two places, unless there is a good free
two-way mail-news gateway available. Just forwarding everthing from
one to the other would cause infinite mail loops!

Maybe in future when webmin has millions of users like perl or python
it will be worth setting up comp.admin.webmin or something ..

 - Jamie

Marcos Rubinstein - ALPA WWW wrote:
> 
> Jason:
> 
> lyris is an incredible strong mailing list program, but:
> 
> 1.- it's not free unless you have a mailing list with less than.. .mmm.. I
> think 150 subscribers or so.
> 
> 2.- to run optimally, it needs to use it's own MTA.
> 
> In any case... besides lyris... I don't know... I do not like the idea of
> a newsgroup... in one hand if you are involved with webmin, at least you
> have a *nix sistem capable of having mailboxes... and in the other, with a
> news group we open ourselves up to tons of spam, and that our mailaddress
> will be "collected" by spammers!.... If you decide to go that
> route... well.. I hope you can find a way to munge the mailaddress... or
> at least give us a little time to change the address of our subs.
> 
> Cheers!
> Marcos
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Jason M. Grigg wrote:
> 
> > This is just a suggestion, but at my company we use a software called Lyris.
> > I'm not sure if it could be gatewayed to both directions, but it could be
> > worth investigating.  Also, a workaround would be to have a user address in
> > the list server to post to the newsgroup, and have all newsgroup messages
> > forwarded to web...@li....  I know that sounds
> > a little bit outlandish, but it could be possible if this is importand.
> > Just my 2 cents...
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web...@li...
> > [mailto:web...@li...]On Behalf Of Rodolfo
> > J. Paiz
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:50 AM
> > To: web...@li...
> > Subject: Re: Webmin Newsgroups?
> >
> >
> > At 5/22/01 10:39 PM +0800, you wrote:
> > >One thing that would be cool is having the mailing list gatewayed to a
> > >newsgroup
> > >in both directions, so that every post to webmin.general goes to the list
> > >and vice
> > >versa. Is that kind of two-way gateway actually possible though?
> >
> > While I have *no* idea how to do this, I know that such a thing exists; so
> > if someone wants to do it, it won't be a futile search.
> >
> > Whosoever decides to go after this, please keep in mind that mail and news
> > each have their advantages. I, for example, do 95% of my mailing-list
> > reading offline (in bed, in the car, on the plane) and news just doesn't
> > cut it. I'm sure there are those who would be greatly benefited by news
> > access, but I suggest that we try not to lose the actual functionality in
> > the process.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rodolfo J. Paiz
> > rp...@go...