[plug] Setting up PLUG groups in addition to this e-mail list

[James Devenish]

Hi,

In message <20040911145309.GA14177 at cp.yi.org>
on Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 10:53:09PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> (1) The Debian package description says "Leafnode is a news server

I think you are correct that leafnode 1 seems completely unsuitable.

> (2) Leafnode 2.x is still in beta.
> 
> Also, Bernd Felsche has offered to give us a machine significantly
> more powerful than spark /and/ xbox.

He's the one who's been suggesting leafnode2. The significance of "beta"
status varies from project to project, so I don't know how much of a
deal it is with leafnode. leafnode2 seemed to be lean, simple, direct,
and closer to what we wanted (but I have never used it). Common names
in NNTP servers seem to be INN and Diablo, both of which seemed less
neat for our needs. Someone else will need to give us pointers about
this issue.

> >  - People will be able to use their "news" client to connect to the
> >    leafnode server, and will have to enter their Mailman address and
> >    password to gain posting privileges. (We cannot have an 'anonymous'
> >    service because random spammers and robots could infiltrate it.)
> 
> If I parse that correctly, anonymous read-only access is still allowed?

Debatable. I would think that people would NOT want this, as it would
surely leave addresses open to harvesting!

> >  - I propose that Mailman, and its archives, remain completely unchanged
> >    (will not be replacing the Mailman web archives with one based on the
> >    newsspool).
> 
> Yes...  That also means that e.g. we can expire articles on the news
> server and not have to be too fussed about things.

If we are going to expire articles, I would like to see a long expiry
time (e.g. two months or longer).

> I'd half like to see the Mailman archives replaced/augmented by
> Lurker-based ones,

Sure.