To Whom It May Concern

Hi,

I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the purposes 
of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.

Due to time constraints, I and many other Article Directory owners can't 
review and approve all new articles fast enough and have thousands of 
good articles which don't get seen by the public in a timely fashion.

This new group would serve at least four purposes:

1) This group would allow article authors an alternative source of 
syndication to article directories and RSS feeds.
2) It would allow information consumers to read articles in a more 
timely fashion.
3) It would allow article authors and information consumers to post and 
read content which might not otherwise be made available by article 
directories.
4) It would give webmasters who are looking for articles a new and 
important source of content.

The name I suggest for the free.uk group is "free.uk.articles" .

Once created, I'll then publicise it and get interested people to post 
their articles and request Internet Service Providers to add the group 
to the selection which they provide.

Thank you for your time.

Kind Regards,

Stanley E Kennedy
RightBiz Enterprises
http://www.rightbiz.com

Stanley E Kennedy wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the
> purposes of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.
>
>


This group is  for uk* groups, not free.uk* groups.  To create the latter 
see how at
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rob/freefaq/fgroups.htm


-- 
  kat
          >^..^<

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:49:14 GMT, Stanley E Kennedy
 wrote:

>To Whom It May Concern

No cause for concern.

>Hi,

G'day,

>I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the purposes 
>of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.

Wrong hierarchy.

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:04:03 -0000, "kat" 
wrote:

>Stanley E Kennedy wrote:
>> To Whom It May Concern
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the
>> purposes of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.
>>
>>
>
>
>This group is  for uk* groups, not free.uk* groups.  To create the latter 
>see how at
>http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rob/freefaq/fgroups.htm

There is a "free" hierarchy that includes a level free.uk. but the
whole lot is not propagated very well. They are all carried by aioe
and some by news.individual.net 

Steve

-- 
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http://www.easynn.com 
http://www.tropheus.demon.co.uk

Steve Wolstenholme wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:04:03 -0000, "kat" 
> wrote:
>
>> Stanley E Kennedy wrote:
>>> To Whom It May Concern
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the
>>> purposes of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> This group is  for uk* groups, not free.uk* groups.  To create the
>> latter see how at
>> http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rob/freefaq/fgroups.htm
>
> There is a "free" hierarchy that includes a level free.uk. but the
> whole lot is not propagated very well. They are all carried by aioe
> and some by news.individual.net
>


You do have to ask, but datemas and motzarella seem helpful, too.


-- 
  kat
          >^..^<

Stanley E Kennedy  wrote:
> I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the purposes 
> of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.

Then discuss it on free.uk - this has nothing to do with uk.*

pete
-- 
pete@fenelon.com "irk the purists - if you've never then you ought."

In MsgID on Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:56:13 +0000,
in uk.net.news.config, 'Pete Fenelon' wrote:

>Stanley E Kennedy  wrote:
>> I would like to propose a new free.uk group be created for the purposes 
>> of allowing the free exchange of informational articles.
>
>Then discuss it on free.uk - this has nothing to do with uk.*

Does anyone else think there could be space for a uk.* group that was
(sort of) modelled on this idea? People that have noticed my comments will
know I've an interest in the concept of merging RSS discussion groups with
usenet in some way. Given the (IMO plainly silly) way that RSS groups seem
to be supplanting usenet, the right methodology in linking them with
usenet might be a way to revive interest in NNTP in general.

As a side question, does anyone know of a RSS discussion client with a
front end resembling Agent? I see no reason there shouldn't be something
that although it uses RSS for data transfer and (IIRC) POSTs replies back
has a friendly front end that *doesn't* seem like a clunky web browser.
The http element is just the protocol, it needn't govern the user's
experience.

I keep wishing I had time to investigate as I feel that people could be
led 'here' if I ever got around to creating a topical web forum, along
with a JS interface to start off, leading to a prettier Java interface and
eventually leading to a stand alone windows executable.

I figure people could be enticed from one to the next by slowly improving
simplicity of use and response speed. The exe could quite easily acquire
an offline-use option too. If those things could be done then the next
valuable leap would be to entice other forums into linking up with it. 

Sadly (much though I hate the idea) there would have to be a straight 'web
browser' pane inside the executable for adverts and links in order to
maintain the bread-head motivation of the less idealistic sysops. That
said, there would be a practical benefit to it, in that 'attachments' to
messages of pictures or programs could also be offered there.

How standardardised are the RSS messsage TX/RX methodologies?

A hierarchy centered around RSS forums would be the keystone here although
I do understand that it couldn't begin without at least one web forum as
the 'seed'. It would be a long term and quite challenging project (in each
of its different aspects) so right now I'm idly just interested in anyone
else's thoughts.

Anyhow, the bottom line of such an alternate interfaces is that they could
quite easily present NNTP groups in a may that's indisinguishable from the
web based stuff.

Dave J.


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