[NTLUG:Discuss] NNTP/News access

[Jack Snodgrass]

> Sig/noise is not as much an issues on these private servers, but I do
> prefer the push technology instead of pull technology.  Just how I like
> things.  If there is enough request I can see about getting the
> Mail<->News working in Mailman.


I vote for News. I'm an IMAP and News fan. You can pull the
headers ( generally a small percentage of the message ) and
then pull the body if your intersested in the message.

You say that you like 'push technology' ( old and slow ) and
then say that you don't like pushing HTML and off topic
threads. If you used pull technology, you only pull what
interests you and don't get all of the non-interesting
stuff pushed down to you.

You can also choose to only pull small items (5K for example )
and ignore the large items. With 'push', you push it all... and then
complain that it's too big.

jack