Subj : Questions about JAMNNTPD
To   : mark lewis
From : Flavio Bessa
Date : Thu Sep 29 2016 20:10:37

Hello mark.

27 Sep 16 12:03, you wrote to me:

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

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

        That's fine. More than increasing the number of BBSs into Zone 4, we need more users. :)

        And news clients allow us to bring on wider range of people that would like to participate, but doesn't have all the energy required to access a BBS system and go through all messages via a telnet client or even download a QWK package. :)

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

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

        Indeed. I wasn't aware of that, only after I started to test the Mystic's NNTP server I realized that.

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

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

        Nice! Will give it a try.

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