In article , Simon Lloyd wrote:

My forums have both members and newsgroup forums, we have many folk
that come to use the interface with the newsgroups, we use nntp software
to automatically post and retrieve posts from the newsgroups, i don't
think other news readers are configurable to allow automation, but would
be good if we could find one so that the members that use these forums
for the NG interface will still be catered for.


There's *alot* of news software out there, so I'm sure some of it will do
what you are wanting to do ... but suggest you give people some options,
rather than picking something to 'support'.
What is right for one person is nasty for others. :)

"Bruce Sinclair" wrote
in message ...
In article , Simon Lloyd
wrote:

My forums have both members and newsgroup forums, we have many folk
that come to use the interface with the newsgroups, we use nntp software
to automatically post and retrieve posts from the newsgroups, i don't
think other news readers are configurable to allow automation, but would
be good if we could find one so that the members that use these forums
for the NG interface will still be catered for.


There's *alot* of news software out there, so I'm sure some of it will do
what you are wanting to do ... but suggest you give people some options,
rather than picking something to 'support'.
What is right for one person is nasty for others. :)


You mean as MS are doing?

In article , "Bob Phillips" wrote:

"Bruce Sinclair" wrote
in message ...
In article , Simon Lloyd
wrote:

My forums have both members and newsgroup forums, we have many folk
that come to use the interface with the newsgroups, we use nntp software
to automatically post and retrieve posts from the newsgroups, i don't
think other news readers are configurable to allow automation, but would
be good if we could find one so that the members that use these forums
for the NG interface will still be catered for.

There's *alot* of news software out there, so I'm sure some of it will do
what you are wanting to do ... but suggest you give people some options,
rather than picking something to 'support'.
What is right for one person is nasty for others. :)

You mean as MS are doing?

Yep. That's what I mean. Suggesting there is only one way to do something
with a computer is simply crazy, as "everyone knows" this is simply wrong.
Why they think people will believe it is beyond me.
And it may well be that someone quickly comes up with a "MS forum to
newsgroups translater" of course. :)