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First post, by Dominus

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:12

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This has been there for quite some time but I guess it is nice for people to know about anyway.
Since october 2000 SF allows access to the discussion/help forums of projects via usenet.
See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=221349
You need an Newsreader that supports SSL and you need to be a registered SourceForge user.
For example you can access nntp.sourceforge.net with Xnews (http://xnews.newsguy.com) and stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org).

The only downside is that you don't see discussions forked but otherwise it beats searching forums like the one of dosbox via the webpage...

Hope this is useful!

Reply 1 of 6, by Snover

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:13

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I use Nomad News and it shows forks. Not sure if it supports SSL. It might.

Um, speaking of NNTP, anyone with access to a premium server, please send me a private message.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 2 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:18

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not sure if we are meaning different things, but my comment about forked threads not bein shown wasn't about xnews but about the sourceforge nntp server.
Xnews is quite capable of showing forks but SF seems to not have that information on its server...

Reply 3 of 6, by Snover

Posted on 2003-03-24, 11:37

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Ah. Is that just for old posts or even new ones?

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 4 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2003-03-24, 13:57

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I'd say for new ones as well.

Reply 5 of 6, by Snover

Posted on 2003-03-24, 14:57

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Well, what a stupid feature! What's the use of having NNTP if you can't view it as it is supposed to be?

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 6 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2003-03-24, 15:25

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I guess I could subscribe to the beta-mailing list for the nntp and ask there if/when this will be in...

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