[Xitami] Is this exploitable? Switch to bulletin board-mode?

[Marcio Marchini]

> >(OTOH, Imatix could run an NNTP server on their systems, that handles
> >only a xitami newsgroup, or hierarchy of them.


	Yes. I actually use the newsgroups by VMware news.vmware.com , by Creative Labs
news.creative.com, the Eclipse one news.eclipse.org and the HTML-Kit one
chamisplace.com.


> This is generally the worst-of-all-worlds.  The major advantage of
> newsgroups is that they're well distributed.  And if there's just one
> newsserver carrying the newsgroup, then everyone has to adjust their
> newsservers to read from that one.  It's basically a web "message board"
> with different software.


	No need to adjust newsservers. You just adjust your newsclient to have an extra
profile/account, to use that specific server instead of teh one in your ISP.

	No need to vote or anything. You can just install your own NNTP server with
your own groups. Lots of people operate that way. Including, as I said, Creative
Labs, IBM, VMware, Microsoft, etc.

marcio