Re: [Evolution] Advice

[Andrew Cowie <afcowie shadnet shad ca>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, troy hakala wrote:

> >   So you think there is still enough demand for NNTP support?  I,
> >   myself, kind of have the feeling that NNTP is dying.
>
> Absolutely, there's demand for it. Usenet activity is growing daily
> and corporations still set up NNTP servers for internal newsgroups
> because it's easy. NNTP works and there is nothing right now that
> can replace it (and i'd argue why replace it, just improve it if you
> don't like it). 

For those who haven't come across it, published by O'Reilly is this
title:

"Practical Internet Groupware"

By Jon Udell
October 1999
ISBN 1-56592-537-8
521 pages, $29.95

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracintgr/

Among other things, in the book he makes an impressive case for how
NNTP can be leveraged, and used to power a heterogenous multi-platform
environment.

One of the things he really boosts is HTML markup in posts - obviously
somewhat despised out in the open but clearly, in a corporate or
organizational setting where everyone can be counted on to have "the
same" reader software, markup can be of tremendous value.

I personally extend that back to HTML in general. With an email reader
capable of rendering HTML (Outlook, Netscape, Evolution), then
you've taken the power of Newsgroups and extended it into a powerful
publishing tool.

Anyway, the book has a lot of good stuff in it, but is one of the less
common ones. Highly recommended, even if you're not a techie, just
for the introduction and conclusion. Hell - read that part online.

Regards,

        Andrew

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