Migration to new news server and reorganization of netscape.public.* hierarchy
Frank Wein
as you may have already read somewhere on the web, the migration to the
new news server will finally take part in January 2006 (probably first
half of it). Connected to this is the migration to new newsgroup hierarchy.
The new news server/infrastructure will be hosted by GigaNews, but of
course access to the news server news.mozilla.org will remain free as it
is right now :). So the new news group hierarchy will not be propagated
to the rest of the Usenet like before, you can only find the new groups
on news.mozilla.org, GigaNews servers and on Google Groups then.
If you don't know the new newsgroup hierarchy yet, take a look at
http://www.mozilla.org/community/newsgroups.txt, there the new newsgroup
hierarchy can be found.
If you still have questions take a look at the FAQ under
http://www.mozilla.org/community/giganews-migration.html first.
Frank
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Ruediger Lahl
> So the new news group hierarchy will not be propagated to the rest of
> the Usenet like before, you can only find the new groups on
> news.mozilla.org, GigaNews servers and on Google Groups then.
Sad, truly sad ...
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best regards
John A.
Yup. Not that things are perfect now. I've always thought that having
the developer groups propagated while user groups are not is a bit
backwards. Particularly so for users who don't install or use the
mail/news component or T-bird.
Are the current groups going away? If so, I say let's start a parallel
set under alt.mozilla instead of netscape.public.mozilla. If they want
to take their ball and go home, we'll make our own ball and keep
playing.
JA
Ruediger Lahl
>>Sad, truly sad ...
>
> If so, I say let's start a parallel set under alt.mozilla instead of
> netscape.public.mozilla. If they want to take their ball and go home,
> we'll make our own ball and keep playing.
Splitting the traffic is worse. We should swallow the toad.
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Sean Vickery (remove the blood-smeared Nordics to email)
When this is done you'll have my thanks, Frank.
I am an end user of Firefox, Thunderbird and have also used
Calendar/Sunbird. I am also a computer technician. Firefox and
Thunderbird and handy to install on computers I set up for clients.
I try to keep up with a little of the technical discussion on
n.p.m.seamonkey, which used to be the group for discussing architecture.
Unfortunately since the taking of the name seamonkey by the people
continuing the suite there's less and less discussion about the trunk
applications' architecture in this group.
After the newsgroup reorg I envisage my reading options getting much better.
cheers all
sean vickery
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Karsten Düsterloh
>> If so, I say let's start a parallel set under alt.mozilla instead of
>> netscape.public.mozilla. If they want to take their ball and go home,
>> we'll make our own ball and keep playing.
>
> Splitting the traffic is worse.
Yeah. Don't do that.
(Having non-English groups in other hierarchies is quite welcome, of
course, to help non-English users, of course.)
> We should swallow the toad.
Well, first of all, news.mozilla.org will still be there and usable by
everyone - but I do hope they get the spam issue resolved.
That's why I do read npm.* over individual.net - they're running a very
effective CleanFeed installation.
But mentioning Google Groups as an anti-spam measure is bad hoax...
We'll see.
Karsten
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Chris Ilias
> But mentioning Google Groups as an anti-spam measure is bad hoax...
>
> We'll see.
I don't know where anyone said going to Google Groups was an anti-spam
measure. The primary reason for going to Google is to have a searchable
archive.
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Karsten Düsterloh
> _Karsten Düsterloh_ spoke thusly:
>> But mentioning Google Groups as an anti-spam measure is bad hoax...
>>
>>
>> We'll see.
>
> I don't know where anyone said going to Google Groups was an
> anti-spam measure.
The FAQ says:
> Will the newsgroups be propagated to Usenet at large? Will the
> newsgroups be accessible through Google Groups?
>
> These two questions are connected; propagation has both upsides and
> downsides. The downsides are that propagation means that we can't
> really do post deletions, and a failure to control spam may affect
> developer participation. 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 an
> irreversible decision so we're starting out the "safe" way. :)
Ron Lopshire
Since the decision by Mozilla to abandon the Suite, I am not sure that
I like where Mozilla is going anyway. And since SeaMonkey doesn't fall
under the Mozilla umbrella, I would favor a total break with
AOL/Netscape/Mozilla including NG and Fora(Forums). I realize that
this may be just wishful thinking, since the finances are probably not
in place to allow such a break at this time. At any rate, that is just
my opinion.
Ron :)
Karsten Düsterloh
> Since the decision by Mozilla to abandon the Suite, I am not sure
> that I like where Mozilla is going anyway. And since SeaMonkey
> doesn't fall under the Mozilla umbrella,
SeaMonkey is still a Mozilla project, even though no product.
SeaMonkey development is still part of everyday's trunk work, i.e.
SeaMonkey shares most core parts with FF & co.
> I would favor a total break with AOL/Netscape/Mozilla including NG
> and Fora(Forums).
What should be the meaning of that?
The SeaMonkey project aims at keeping the suite on track with
contemporary development, we don't want to recreate the world.
What good would a codebase split do? None, IMO.
> I realize that this may be just wishful thinking, since the finances
> are probably not in place to allow such a break at this time.
That's not "wishful thinking", that's hopefully never happening. ;-)
> At any rate, that is just my opinion.
As things currently stand - despite some problems we have - this is
definitely not the opinion of the SeaMonkey project.
Ron Lopshire
Karsten,
1) I realize that the SeaMonkey core code comes from Mozilla/Netscape.
The SeaMonkey GUI (and application) is virtually indistinguishable
from Netscape 7.2. I have not personally used the Mozilla Suite.
2) It is my understanding, based on the posts of others in various Moz
NGs, that the SeaMonkey development team is no longer with Mozilla,
including the Foundation, mozilla.org and mozilla.com. If that is
wrong, please correct me.
3) It is my understanding, based on the posts of others in various Moz
NGs, that Mozilla (whatever that is, was or will be) decided to
abandon the Suite approach to network clienting, and go with two
different products ... Firefox as an internet browser, and Thunderbird
as an email/NNTP client. No Suite. If that is wrong, please correct me.
4) IE and OE are two different GUIs using the same core functions of
the MS OS. (Try to uninstall them on WinXP and see what happens.) And
with each subsequent OS, the distinctions seem to become less and
less. I can use IE to search through my HD, for crying out loud.
Evidently MS sees no distinction between a file on some malware
writer's server and one on my HD.
5) As I said, I don't agree with the direction that Mozilla has taken
by abandoning the Suite approach. The idea that most IE/OE users
prefer two different products is ridiculous. Most IE/OE users use IE
and OE because that is what came with their OS, and that is all that
they have ever used. Ask most PC users what browser they use and they
will say, "What's a browser?"
6) The most important things that Mozilla and SeaMonkey have going for
them is that their apps are 1) not MS, and 2) secure. This is the
niche that appeals to most FF, TB, Mozilla Suite and Netscape users.
Trying to emulate IE and OE is abandoning that niche. I already have
those POS apps on my WinXP box, and I prefer not to use them.
I have been using Netscape since Netscape 2.0, and as I said, I am
very concerned, in many ways, about the direction of Mozilla WRT their
internet applications.
Ron :)
Michael Vincent van Rantwijk
> Ron Lopshire aber hob zu reden an und schrieb:
>> Since the decision by Mozilla to abandon the Suite, I am not sure
>> that I like where Mozilla is going anyway. And since SeaMonkey
>> doesn't fall under the Mozilla umbrella,
>
> SeaMonkey is still a Mozilla project, even though no product.
> SeaMonkey development is still part of everyday's trunk work, i.e.
> SeaMonkey shares most core parts with FF & co.
>
>> I would favor a total break with AOL/Netscape/Mozilla including NG
>> and Fora(Forums).
>
> What should be the meaning of that?
> The SeaMonkey project aims at keeping the suite on track with
> contemporary development, we don't want to recreate the world.
> What good would a codebase split do? None, IMO.
Ron, you are obviously missing the real meaning of friends like the
Mozilla Foundation/Corporation, because the SeaMonkey counsel/developers
can't do it without the support of the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation,
just think about the used infrastructure.
>> I realize that this may be just wishful thinking, since the finances
>> are probably not in place to allow such a break at this time.
>
> That's not "wishful thinking", that's hopefully never happening. ;-)
A split like that will most likely end in the end of SeaMonkey
project...which I hope, just like all SeaMonkey supporters, will never
happen.
>> At any rate, that is just my opinion.
>
> As things currently stand - despite some problems we have - this is
> definitely not the opinion of the SeaMonkey project.
Karsten, what are these problems exactly, if I may ask?
Chris Ilias
> Chris Ilias aber hob zu reden an und schrieb:
>> anti-spam measure.
>
> The FAQ says:
>
>> Will the newsgroups be propagated to Usenet at large? Will the
>> newsgroups be accessible through Google Groups?
>>
>> These two questions are connected; propagation has both upsides and
>> downsides. The downsides are that propagation means that we can't
>> really do post deletions, and a failure to control spam may affect
>> developer participation. 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 an
>> irreversible decision so we're starting out the "safe" way. :)
Not going to usenet is the 'anti-spam measure'. Besides, as I understand
it, Google access will be read-only.
Ron Lopshire
Michael,
See my reply to Karsten. My post was based on the belief that the
SeaMonkey group split with Mozilla over, as the saying goes, creative
differences. This belief is based on posts by others who, IMO, should
be in a position to know whether or not this is true. As I said, I
have concerns about the direction that FF and TB are taking. I much
prefer the Suite approach, i.e., SeaMonkey.
Not trying to step on any toes, here. Just concerns, that's all. FF
and TB, are, after all, still not IE and OE. One would hope that this
would remain so.
Ron :)
Rinaldi J. Montessi
=====
> See my reply to Karsten. My post was based on the belief that the
> SeaMonkey group split with Mozilla over, as the saying goes, creative
> differences. This belief is based on posts by others who, IMO, should
> be in a position to know whether or not this is true. As I said, I
> have concerns about the direction that FF and TB are taking. I much
> prefer the Suite approach, i.e., SeaMonkey.
My understanding is Mozilla wanted to scrap the Suite and concentrate on
Firefox and Thunderbird, whereas the Seamonkey group wanted to see the
Suite continue. I think there are no losers here.
Rinaldi
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Philip Chee
> My understanding is Mozilla wanted to scrap the Suite and concentrate on
> Firefox and Thunderbird, whereas the Seamonkey group wanted to see the
> Suite continue. I think there are no losers here.
Not just "wanted to scrap". They DID scrap Mozilla Suite, just before the
final Mozilla Suite 1.8beta, annoying the hell out of a lot of people who
contributed a lot of code to the Suite on the belief that 1.8 was going to
be released in the same time frame as Firefox 1.5.
Phil
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Rinaldi J. Montessi
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:47:45 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
>
>> My understanding is Mozilla wanted to scrap the Suite and concentrate on
>> Firefox and Thunderbird, whereas the Seamonkey group wanted to see the
>> Suite continue. I think there are no losers here.
>
> Not just "wanted to scrap". They DID scrap Mozilla Suite, just before the
> final Mozilla Suite 1.8beta, annoying the hell out of a lot of people who
> contributed a lot of code to the Suite on the belief that 1.8 was going to
> be released in the same time frame as Firefox 1.5.
IIRC the Mozilla Suite code went into SeaMonkey. What am I missing? I
interpret your message to indicate the code (labor) went into the bit
bucket. Clarify please.
I have been building Mozilla/SeaMonkey from CVS two to three times a
week since I can't remember when and don't recall any hiccups during the
transition.
Rinaldi
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people's attention.
Philip Chee
> Philip Chee wrote:
>> Not just "wanted to scrap". They DID scrap Mozilla Suite, just before the
>> final Mozilla Suite 1.8beta, annoying the hell out of a lot of people who
>> contributed a lot of code to the Suite on the belief that 1.8 was going to
>> be released in the same time frame as Firefox 1.5.
> IIRC the Mozilla Suite code went into SeaMonkey. What am I missing? I
> interpret your message to indicate the code (labor) went into the bit
> bucket. Clarify please.
It would have gone into the bit bucket (Mozilla 1.8 was killed off just
before release) if not for a brave bunch of volunteers who stepped up to the
plate.
> I have been building Mozilla/SeaMonkey from CVS two to three times a
> week since I can't remember when and don't recall any hiccups during the
> transition.
Well you should thank the Seamonkey council for that. Before the Seamonkey
council was formed there was no further development path for the Suite.
Phil
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Rinaldi J. Montessi
------
> It would have gone into the bit bucket (Mozilla 1.8 was killed off just
> before release) if not for a brave bunch of volunteers who stepped up to the
> plate.
Perhaps behind the scenes that may have been a reality; but to me on the
outside looking in the transition seemed flawless. Good PR control I guess.
>> I have been building Mozilla/SeaMonkey from CVS two to three times a
>> week since I can't remember when and don't recall any hiccups during the
>> transition.
>
> Well you should thank the Seamonkey council for that. Before the Seamonkey
> council was formed there was no further development path for the Suite.
Thanks for the information. And thanks again to the SeaMonkey council.
It's nice to know that all the machines I've installed the suite on
won't be left in the lurch.
Rinaldi
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Simon Paquet
> See my reply to Karsten. My post was based on the belief that the
> SeaMonkey group split with Mozilla over, as the saying goes, creative
> differences. This belief is based on posts by others who, IMO, should
> be in a position to know whether or not this is true.
The split was not over creative differences, but over QA ressources. The
Mozilla Foundation wanted to concentrate on its flagship products FF and
TB and didn't want to release Suite releases which weren't up to par
with
the quality one could expect from a official Mozilla product.
So they announced the end of the Mozilla Suite and asked volunteers to
step up and continue to maintain the Suite under a new name, which is
what happened.
--
Simon Paquet
Robert Kaiser
> Philip Chee wrote:
> ------
>> It would have gone into the bit bucket (Mozilla 1.8 was killed off just
>> before release) if not for a brave bunch of volunteers who stepped up to the
>> plate.
>
> Perhaps behind the scenes that may have been a reality; but to me on the
> outside looking in the transition seemed flawless. Good PR control I guess.
The main thing here was good cooperation between the Mozilla Foundation
and the newly formed SeaMonkey Council.
It's also improtant to see that the Foundation never wanted to see the
suite development end, they just discovered that they lack the manpower
(esp. QA people) to maintain and further develop their heavily popular
Firefox/Thunderbird product line and the less popular suite product next
to each other. Because of that, they decided to not do further
development of the suite by themselves, but from the first day they said
they would be willing to help any other team to take over development
and provide them with infrastructure, and that's also what they did.
Exactly that provided all we needed for a smooth transition.
(Of course, there are some things internally that could have done even
better in the transition, and we know areas where we'd like even more
support of them, but one has to understand that their more popular prime
products are higher in priority. Still, they have done a lot for a good
transition this last year, and in the light of the turn of the year we
should thanks them for what they did - and wish they'll continue to
support us, maybe even improve that support in the next year...)
Robert Kaiser
Robert Kaiser
> 2) It is my understanding, based on the posts of others in various Moz
> NGs, that the SeaMonkey development team is no longer with Mozilla,
> including the Foundation, mozilla.org and mozilla.com. If that is wrong,
> please correct me.
So then let me correct you ;-)
The SeaMonkey project is still fully with mozilla.org, is legally
represented by the Mozilla Foundation, and the Foundation is supporting
our project, mainly through allowing us to use their infrastructure
(project web pages, CVS repository, FTP space, newsgroups/mailing lists,
"tinderboxen" and such stuff).
In the new mozilla.* newsgroup hierarchy, we'll even have seperate user
and developer newsgroups for the SeaMonkey project (note that this group
here, n.p.m.seamonkey is originally NOT about the SeaMonkey project, but
about mozilla.org project organization, which will have a seperate and
better named group in the new hierarchy as well).
Robert Kaiser
Karsten Düsterloh
> Karsten, what are these problems exactly, if I may ask?
See also KaiRo's last paragraph in <dp90s6$k...@ripley.aoltw.net>.
Karsten Düsterloh
>>> newsgroups be accessible through Google Groups?
>>>
>>> These two questions are connected; propagation has both upsides and
>>> downsides. The downsides are that propagation means that we can't
>>> really do post deletions, and a failure to control spam may affect
>>> developer participation. 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 an
>>> irreversible decision so we're starting out the "safe" way. :)
>
> Not going to usenet is the 'anti-spam measure'. Besides, as I understand
> it, Google access will be read-only.
So we disagree on the interpretation of a text not written by either of
us - that doesn't prove much, but - as I wrote - we'll see. ;-)
Chris Ilias
> I still don't get it. In my experience there hasn't been enough spam
> in the existing propagated groups to be noticeable. Why the concern?
>
> Propagated developer groups, and non propagated user/support groups,
> and now switching to all non propagated groups to get rid of spam
> that's not there. I think whoever's in charge of Mozilla's groups
> strategy should take a page out of George Costanza's book and just do
> the opposite of their first inclination. (Or if that's what their
> doing now they should stop.)
Of course, /you/ don't think spam is a problem. You're access this group
via Adelphia, who use Giganews' ISP Outsourcing Service for usenet.
http://www.giganews.com/news/article/40
You see how good their spam filtering is? :-)
FWIW, the decision of whether not to propagate to usenet affects so many
other characteristics than spam. I think it was just a matter of the
cons outweighing the pros. Plus, as the Giganews migration FAQ states,
"deciding to allow propagation is an irreversible decision so we're
starting out the "safe" way. :) "
Frank Wein
> _John A._ spoke thusly on 01/01/2006 10:55 PM:
>> I still don't get it. In my experience there hasn't been enough spam
>> in the existing propagated groups to be noticeable. Why the concern?
>>
>> Propagated developer groups, and non propagated user/support groups,
>> and now switching to all non propagated groups to get rid of spam
>> that's not there. I think whoever's in charge of Mozilla's groups
>> strategy should take a page out of George Costanza's book and just do
>> the opposite of their first inclination. (Or if that's what their
>> doing now they should stop.)
>
> Of course, /you/ don't think spam is a problem. You're access this group
> via Adelphia, who use Giganews' ISP Outsourcing Service for usenet.
> http://www.giganews.com/news/article/40
Oh i access news.mozilla.org and i still don't think there has been that
much spam. Yes, there have been some spam waves in the last year, but
most were canceled quite in time. Anyway, a good Cleanfeed install
probably would have solved this, too ;).
Frank
Ron Lopshire
Thanks, Robert. We Netscape/Suite users/aficionados can now begin the
New Year with that warm and fuzzy feeling.
Happy New Year to you and yours, as well.
Ron :)
Ron Lopshire
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:00:01 -0500, Ron Lopshire <not...@ovbl.org>
> wrote:
> ...
>
>>Not trying to step on any toes, here. Just concerns, that's all. FF
>>and TB, are, after all, still not IE and OE. One would hope that this
>>would remain so.
>
>
> of IE7? It appears MS is attempting to meet FF, at least, more than
> halfway. ;)
OMG, John. I am afraid to look. <g> At any rate, I will keep my IE
locked down, and use it only for Microsoft Updates.
Ron ;)
Ron Lopshire
Thanks for the clarification, Simon.
Ron :)
gwtc
> Frank Wein wrote:
>
>>Oh i access news.mozilla.org and i still don't think there has been that
>>much spam.
>
>
someone using a "Digital Signature [that] is not Valid"
Chris Ilias
> Christian Biesinger wrote:
>
>> That depends a lot on which newsgroups you are reading...
> someone using a "Digital Signature [that] is not Valid"
I guess now is as good a time as any to mention that both Google Groups
and Giganews filter out messages with binary attachments in text groups.
Google and Giganews treat SMIME signatures as binary attachments. (TXT,
CSS, and ICS files are okay.)
My message is in reply to gwtc, because Christian Biesinger's message
never showed up here (Giganews).