I’ve put together this New Mozilla News Server Information Centre, which should cover any questions people may have about the new news server and newsgroups. It should make for a Happy New Year. I’ll be offline, until 2006 [EST].
Early next week is when the switch will be turned, to point news.mozilla.org to the Giganews server; but the actual newsgroup transition will happen after that. Because Giganews contains usenet groups, it already has the netscape.public.mozilla.* hierarchy. When the switch happens, those groups will be available to people accessing the Giganews server via the servername [...]
It’s finally public. See: http://www.mozilla.org/community/giganews-migration.html It’s been decided, at least initially, to limit propagation to only GigaNews and Google Groups. We have agreements in place with both services to not propagate messages any further. Based on feedback from the community, this may change at some point in the future, but deciding to allow propagation is [...]
I came across this podcast, in which someone referencing my site actually tried to pronounce my name (start at about 12:15 into the podcast). There are a few different pronunciations, but the one used in the podcast is definitely wrong. My parents are from a part of northern Greece which was part of Macedonia. When [...]
Well, I finally did it. A little while ago, I posted about my browser and mailnews FAQs being too big for one page, and that I was considering giving each FAQ item its own page. I contemplated using a content management system, but in the end decided to get rid of template content that I [...]
Mozilla will have a new newsgroup server, and a new newsgroup hierarchy. One of the biggest decisions in the process is deciding whether or not the newsgroups should be on usenet. For what it is worth, that decision was made some time ago; but since no-one from the Foundation has announced it publicly, I won’t [...]
I’ve been thinking… Subscribing to newsgroups is very similar to subscribing to RSS feeds. I use a Firefox extension called Sage to read RSS feeds. Sage contains the list of subscribed feeds within a folder in my Firefox bookmarks. This allows me to: – sort the list via ‘sort by’. – re-arrange feeds via drag [...]
Every once in a while, someone asks if Mozilla Thunderbird can automatically mark a folder or newsgroup read when you exit that folder or newsgroup. (Why: I don’t know. Automatic marking of all messages as read on exit, is one of the reasons I dislike web-based forums.) Thunderbird 1.5 can do this, but the setting [...]