[plug] New PLUG news server

[James Devenish]

In message <veip22xqk9.ln2 at innovative.iinet.net.au>
on Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:15:27AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> We're talking about articles posted *before* the news server came
> online.

Agreed.

> Install leafnode on your Linux box, set up the BIOS to alarm every 3
> days and then set it to fetchnews when connected to the net. After
> collection, set the next alarm in the BIOS and do a shutdown.

You must be kidding. Why go to the effort of creating a new server and
news service if it is just to be hobbled? I personally wanted to see a
news server because it can be better than an e-mail list, rather than
merely on-par. By the way, you're the one who put forward the idea that
the news server could be the official message archive. I don't see how
that could be fulfilled if it was missing almost everything.

> If the custodians feel inspired, they could set up a "plug.replay"
> newsgroup and throw the list archives in there. Just make sure that
> you set the newsgroup to status "n", which means no postings at all.
> May be useful as an exercise.

Or...just put the messages into plug.list and plug.ramble (or whatever
it's called).