NovaBBS is supposed to be like GG ...

Can i cross-post ???

Can i subscribe to a Thread?

>>> The message was successfully posted.
>>> You have 11 posts remaining of 12 posts per hour.

---------- the [12 posts per hour] limit seems quite reasonable.

IS there another one, that's better than NovaBBS ?

HenHanna wrote:

> NovaBBS is supposed to be like GG ...

No, it is not meant to be like GG. There is no attempt to clone GG. It is meant to provide some Usenet newsgroups in somewhat of a web forum format.

> Can i cross-post ???

No. If you start a new thread, it will appear in only the group you started it.

If you reply to an article with multiple groups in the Newsgroups header, it will be sent to all the groups (assuming the upstream news server carries those groups), or the 'Followup-To' group.

> Can i subscribe to a Thread?

You can 'subscribe' to a group, which simply moves it to the top of the list and gives you a link 'New' to see articles since your last visit to the group, but there is no feature to subscribe to a thread.

>>>> The message was successfully posted.
>>>> You have 11 posts remaining of 12 posts per hour.

> ---------- the [12 posts per hour] limit seems quite reasonable.

Great! I was hoping 12 was a good default.

> IS there another one, that's better than NovaBBS ?

Probably. but it depends on your definition of 'better'.

--
Retro Guy

Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

> HenHanna wrote:
>
>> the [12 posts per hour] limit seems quite reasonable.
>
> Great! I was hoping 12 was a good default.

Depends on how many newsgroups where you participate. I lurk in some,
and participate in several. At one time, I was subscribing to 52
newsgroups. Wouldn't take long to hit a 12 count max at the server. I
couldn't even submit to half the newsgroups.

Since cross-posting is not allowed at NovaBBS, maybe the quota should be
12 posts per hour per newsgroup.

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
>
>> HenHanna wrote:
>>
>>> the [12 posts per hour] limit seems quite reasonable.
>>
>> Great! I was hoping 12 was a good default.
>
> Depends on how many newsgroups where you participate. I lurk in some,
> and participate in several. At one time, I was subscribing to 52
> newsgroups. Wouldn't take long to hit a 12 count max at the server. I
> couldn't even submit to half the newsgroups.
>
> Since cross-posting is not allowed at NovaBBS, maybe the quota should be
> 12 posts per hour per newsgroup.

Oops, I just remembered NovaBBS does not carry all newsgroups, just a
small subset of them. If I mapped the newsgroups to which I subscribe
in my NNTP client to those available at NovaBBS, the count of newsgroups
where I'd participate at NovaBBS would be a lot smaller.

>> Can i subscribe to a Thread?

> You can 'subscribe' to a group, which simply moves it to the top of the list and gives you a link 'New' to see articles since your last visit to the group, but there is no feature to subscribe to a thread.

> You can 'subscribe' to a group <----------- How do i do this?

i googled and didn't find an answer.

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 18:59:17 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

>> You can 'subscribe' to a group <----------- How do i do this?
>
> i googled and didn't find an answer.

Just read a group when logged in. That group now should appear among other
groups you read, before groups you have not read, in the list. When new
articles appear in the group since your last visit, there will be a link
'(New)' to show them.

In Configuration, you can also add or remove groups from this list.

It's not much of a 'subscription', but it may be better than nothing.

On 2024-03-02, Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 18:59:17 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
>
>>> You can 'subscribe' to a group <----------- How do i do this?
>>
>> i googled and didn't find an answer.
>
> Just read a group when logged in. That group now should appear among other
> groups you read, before groups you have not read, in the list. When new
> articles appear in the group since your last visit, there will be a link
> '(New)' to show them.
>
> In Configuration, you can also add or remove groups from this list.
>
> It's not much of a 'subscription', but it may be better than nothing.

Apparently he knows since he managed to sign in to the group news.software.readers

Retro Guy wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 18:59:17 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

>>> You can 'subscribe' to a group <----------- How do i do this?
>>
>> i googled and didn't find an answer.

> Just read a group when logged in. That group now should appear among other
> groups you read, before groups you have not read, in the list. When new
> articles appear in the group since your last visit, there will be a link
> '(New)' to show them.

> In Configuration, you can also add or remove groups from this list.

> It's not much of a 'subscription', but it may be better than nothing.

thanks... i see it now...

This page: https://www.novabbs.com/computers/index.php

and this page may also be useful: https://www.novabbs.com/computers/overboard.php?