Re: math forums

Philippe 92 wrote:
Frederick Williams a écrit :
Jonathan Groves wrote:
.... I guess they don't delete posts
and accounts here on sci.math. If they ever do, they must
do it only very rarely.
Who is the 'they' and where is the 'here'? I know nothing about
computers or the Internet but my understanding is that sci.math posts
are distributed among all the news servers that choose to carry
sci.math. Those servers will delete stuff as they run out of disk
space. Also there are no accounts 'on' sci.math. Users have accounts
with ISPs that carry (or not) the various news groups.

(Something like that. I may be spouting bollocks.)

You are perfectly right.

sci.math is a usenet forum, no one "owns" sci.math.
The wrong feeling by Jonathan is because he uses a "copy" of
sci.math through one among several "web forums", the mostly used
being Google groups (beurk) and Math Forum from Drexel (not that
good either), the one used by Jonathan.

The drawback of these copies as web sites is they use the client's
web browser, and a proprietary way of displaying the contributions.

Hence you have no easy way of selecting topics, or contributors or
whatever, or sorting the messages the way YOU want (not the way Google
or Drexel does), filtering out (plonk), making local copies etc...

All these features, as well as proper quoting, proper signatures etc,
being defined in usenet, not web HTTP, are available in specific
software (newsreaders), and usually offered in the mail readers as
well (but prefer to choose a specialized software).

So the proper way to access usenet is through such a reader and
a news server (NNTP), usually provided by your ISP for free.
[...]

I'm thinking of doing some fine-grained message filtering, and
I have already tried "NewsProxy". (about a year ago)

William Elliot recently posted in another thread some
information on Usenet and Usenet software here:

< http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.math/msg/2ac5e052b3919868?hl=en >

David Bernier

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