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Adrian Midgley wrote:
A reasonable approach IMHO. Is hosting an NNTP server easily available?
Yes.
Co-location probably is over the top, so can it be done with a virtual server or with private newsgroups on an available system?
Yes - I think virtual server may be preferred I'll speak with some people. Only draw back is authentication.... Do they all have a username and password somewhere else already? Even if they don't presumably if we create an authentication scheme you will want to reuse it in future. Some of the specialist NNTP hosting companies may have all this prepackaged by now.
I think News has many useful characteristics for this, but it would be a "new" technology to most of the users. Very reasonable approach I'd say, just comes down to installation support, getting it going support for each user, and then maintainability.
For those with a newsreader supporting appropriate protocols (e.g. Netscape Messenger/Outlook/Outlook Express), a username, password, and URL to click, are sufficient to add a newsreader to the list of servers, and subscribe them, to a group. For handling those who can't manage that life gets harder, but at least it should be able to handle almost any client system, and probably give them a choice of programs.
I tend to think in terms of minutes and sumaries rather than an archive in use for every passing comment.
Okay 48 hour expiry like alt.binaries.* on Demon then ;)
We have the connectivity, will need to identify hosting arrangments. I was getting at a Wiki or an equivalent, as a possible later addition, or if the main thing was eg a threaded discussion board cum publishing system based in PHP then PHPWiki might fit right in from day one.
I think someone else in this list passed comment that none of the Wiki's quite do it for them. But I'll have a think and a research.
Our office manager has Notes experience, and I've used Notes systems in the past. It didn't seem a popular choice really, albeit more reliable than MS Exchange-based systems.
The "first steps"(?) book for Lotus Notes has a chapter on overcoming user resistance, so your not alone in your feelings. However Notes does do somethings extremely well, and it is useful in discussions on groupware as a lot of people have used it. Notes implemented correctly, and no one but the CIA and NSA will eavesdrop on your patient records. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.