Re: popularity of NNTP (Re: nntp not working after upgrade)

Ken Murchison <murch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:14:06 -0500



    On 01/06/2014 01:01 PM, Mikhail T.
      wrote:

    
      On 06.01.2014 8:03, Bron Gondwana
        wrote:

      
        I think the problem is that just about nobody is running nntp
      
      I for one would love to make some of
        the mailboxes, where I archive some private mailing lists,
        available to people via NNTP (read-only) -- one list per
        "news-group". In my opinion, it is a method much superior to the
        perversely popular HTML archivers (like mhonarc or the mailman's
        component), for example.

        
        Unfortunately, every time I ventured to configure such a set up,
        I could not do it in reasonable time and was forced to abandon
        the effort.

        
        Whereas there are plenty of howtos and manuals for setting up an
        IMAP-server with Cyrus, the NNTP is either undocumented, or the
        documentation is so old, it refers to obsoleted versions of the
        software. If someone using NNTP were to document it, maybe, the
        user-base would start growing?

        
          so it didn't get much testing.
        
        Maybe, if Cyrus developers "ate their own dogfood" -- keeping
        the archives of this mailing list available via NNTP, for
        example?..

        
    We actually are using the Cyrus NNTP stuff at CMU, and other than
    the bug that I introduced when adding the 'newsgroups' option (since
    fixed), it works just fine.

    
    The instructions in doc/install-netnews.html should be sufficient to
    get you going.

    
    -- 
Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University
  

----
Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/
List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
To Unsubscribe:
https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus