Subj : Questions about JAMNNTPD
To   : Flavio Bessa
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Sep 27 2016 12:03:28


26 Sep 16 11:20, you wrote to All:

 FB> I am currently taking part on an initiative for expanding the user
 FB> base for Fido here at Zone 4, and many of the people I talk to express
 FB> interest into returning to Fido, but using some NNTP client and
 FB> accessing the echos using NNTP.

those would be end users only... not full nodes or points...

 FB> We are currently doing some tests with some applications and mostly
 FB> with the NNTP daemon from Mystic which is working fine, but we always
 FB> have the issue that the NNTP clients we have been using so far are
 FB> able to post only messages to All, which is a "limitation" from the
 FB> NNTP service as well.

news articles are not written to any specific individual... news articles are to everyone so they do not have a "To:" field...

 FB> I was wondering if JAMNNTPD has any advantages over this method, or/if
 FB> there is a NNTP client software that can work in this regard.

JAMNNTPd is the *only* news server that has this capability... the client doesn't matter... as i understand it, the capability only works for replies and not for new posts but i may be wrong about that... i've never seen a new news article that contained a To: name originating from a JAMNNTPd server...

)\/(ark

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