Zug Newsgroup

[omega]

I remember reading a post awhile ago about someone who was, em, shall we say concerned about the effects of fragmentation that is caused as we get more methods of zaurus problem solving. I was unaware of the chatroom, and now with the addition of the mailing lists I do feel that the person had a valid point.

I have a suggestion which may not be feasable with current software, but i shall throw it out here nevertheless as it has the possiblity of allowing several methods to distribute the discussion yet keeping it centralised.

I think that there should be a Zaurus newgroup server created. This would allow for easy updates on your Zaurus, plus you also have the option of keeping the forum with you in a few megabytes (able to reference and research offline!).  

People could still get a daily digest of the newsgroup articles emailed to them if they wished.  

I hope that you can get the picture of what i'm talking about. I would really like to see a news server backend to this board... That way we can keep all this really useful information together, and also with the option to keep a easily updateable copy with you all the time!

[tapjpa]

There is one try tnn.sys.zaurus.

[offroadgeek]

let me see if I understand your request - you would like to download the posts from the zug forum as you would a newsgroup, and be able to also post, reply, etc. back to the forum via this newsgroup backend?

[omega]

Yep, does that sound a little crazy? 8-)

[doseas]

Yep, does that sound a little crazy? 8-)

Not entirely crazy...  Adobe, Citrix & IIRC, even Trolltech, do this with their support forums -- they are gateway'd from their web pages to a NNTP server.

[Rolf]

I remember reading a post awhile ago about someone who was, em, shall we say concerned about the effects of fragmentation that is caused as we get more methods of zaurus problem solving.

ACK.

now with the addition of the mailing lists

Where are these mailing lists you are talking about.  I could not find them.  Thanks for the pointer.

I think that there should be a Zaurus newgroup server created.

I totally agree that this is a good idea.  How about using the gateway http://gmane.org ?  Their service is just wonderful.

[rolf]

let me see if I understand your request - you would like to download the posts from the zug forum as you would a newsgroup, and be able to also post, reply, etc. back to the forum via this newsgroup backend?

There is a ready-made solution for phpbb at http://m2f.sourceforge.net/.  It might speed up implementation and lower the work load.