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To: garfy@xxxxxxxxxx, Egbert Hinzen <egbert@xxxxxxxxxx>, Freeciv Developer <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv news server
From: Tuomas Airaksinen <tuma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:36:50 +0200

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Egbert Hinzen wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:
> 
> > Why haven't you launched news server on freeciv.org?
> > It wouldn't be too hard, I suppose. News server would be
> > very much more practical (especially to read) than mailing list.
> 
> IMHO this is a very good idea!
> 
> The traffic at this list has become to much to be handled by a mailing
> list usefully (more than 200 every week).
> 
> I don't want to get all of them and a news server would give me the chance
> to select messages / follow threads I might be interested in.
> 
> If you don't like to set up an own news server at freeciv.org, it should
> be no problem to create (a) standard internet news group(s).

I suppose that creating own news server and not connecting it to the Usenet
would be the best solution, if we are afraid of spammers.

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