Okay, the titleling might not be the correct format. But I was think, how about opening Sciforums up to newsgroups? i.e. sciforums.life.freethoughts sciforums.life.art sciforums.life.culture sciforums.life.world.events sciforums.life.world.politics sciforums.science.general sciforums.science.cosmology sciforums.science.astrology sciforums.science.exobiology sciforums.science.biotechnology sciforums.science.genetics sciforums.science.frontierphysics sciforums.science.ai sciforums.philosophy.general sciforums.philosophy.religion sciforums.philosophy.eastern sciforums.philosophy.ethics sciforums.subculture.comps sciforums.subculture.scifi sciforums.subculture.pseudoscience Of course you could expand these further or split them further, like sciforums.subculture.pseudoscience.para-psy etc. Of course I know that would mean you would have to run a seperate newsgroup server to both pull and feed, and perhaps rework your coding to account for newsgroup protocals. (although I know that's way more than you want to do Porfiry Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) I just think newsgroups are useful at times Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Interesting idea. I'm already running a webserver on my home computer (connected via DSL - it's running webfansite and pushing out about 1 GB a day). It's entirely feasible to add a news server as well (I've got a lot of spare computing power here). I'll have to look into the rules for how groups are distributed to other servers and how you are supposed to go about creating new public groups. Also, I already know that there's software to connect our forum software with a news server, so that would be pretty trivial.
Well I know if you decided to you can decide the update period for your newsgroup to save bandwidth. I know there are quite a few pieces of server software for doing so, and the information is aquirable (I did look up how to do it with a personal computer, but if you have a static IP then it's simplified. You could also place your webfansite in there as well. For instance webfansite.jolie.binaries of course sometimes people dislike binaries because of all the dodgy things that can be loaded.) Don't forget if you decide to do it and sort it out, Place in your announcements that your doing so just incase there is any side effects Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! (we get warned for any possible downtime. ... If I keep this up you'll be calling me mother hen.)
