Re: Re: News Group Server Software

"Damon Linkous" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:mailman.1649.1067457376.851.xaraya_curiosa-n5IRV0TL0hwRxVAL8JNkP+OyGI2DFzLe@public.gmane.org
> > Can't we already do that, minus the annoying Yahoo! ad:)
> > http://www.xaraya.com/index.php/newsgroups
>
> This third reply is from email via the email list, I'm not sure how
> I'm subscribed. Just wanted to see how the reply looked compared to
> the other two.
>
> Glad this is the Off-topic list. <grn>
>
> Damon Linkous
The web interface you were playing with is the newsgroups module which
interfaces directly with our newsserver (well with any newsserver really but
xaraya.com obviously uses our own).
It uses the comments api to display the messages (i think). But it posts
them using the nntp functions in php.

The email interface is to mailman mailing list software which ties into our
mail server. It in turn syncs with the news server to post new messages to
nntp and pull messages off nntp and send them out via email. It polls the
nntp server every 5 mins to check for new messages.

And thats basically how our system works. Two backends - NNTP and email but
synced up using mailman. with a third interface to nntp via the web.

Oh and yes the newsgroups module is in the modules repository ;-)

miko