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Grex Sports Item 95: Shared Conference?
Entered by ric on Tue Jul 4 22:19:55 UTC 2000:

There used to be a way that a conference could be shared between two separate
systems.  This used to be the case with the "linux" conference... but it was
slow because of our respective internet connections.

I wondered if perhaps we could try this again with the Sports conference. 
Combining the interest of M-Netters with the interest of Grexers in this area
might prove successful and lead to a more active conference for both systems.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by jep on Wed Jul 5 14:34:02 2000:

Linking of conferences is a technical issue.  As I understand it, Grex 
objects to participating because of security issues; you link 
conferences by linking the conference directory using NFS, and that's 
not very secure.  There's been some discussion about this over the last 
year in the coop conference.

What we can do is provide item links from one system to another for WWW 
users, so that you can click on a link and leap over to the other 
system.  You'll have to log in, then you'll be at the item on the other 
system.  It's not the same thing at all as a linked conference, and it's 
not a very satisfactory substitute.

I agree to some extent that a shared sports conference would be a good 
thing.  Both Grex and M-Net have a limited number of sports conference 
users.  By combining them, we'd have a better chance of sustaining 
interesting conversations.  I also think it's better for each system to 
have it's own separate conferences, including sports.  There ought to be 
enough users on each system, in this sports-crazed society, to sustain 
two conferences.  I'm not sure I'd support a shared sports conference -- 
at least, not sharing the existing sports conferences -- even if it were 
possible and easy to set up.  It's not possible, so it doesn't really 
matter what I think.

#2 of 4 by delas on Mon Jun 16 14:15:45 2003:

sorri, i'm just trying this bbs, it's really fantastic! 
byez

#3 of 4 by jep on Mon Jun 16 16:18:47 2003:

You're very welcome to post here in the sports conference, or anywhere 
on Grex.  Please do; it's what we're all about!  Welcome to Grex!

#4 of 4 by tonster on Fri Jun 20 02:06:08 2003:

actually, resp:1 is not entirely true.

it's a technical issue, but sharing the conferences over NFS is not
something that is required.  Also, it's not something that is possible
as M-Net's upstream provider blocks NFS traffic at their routers.

Both Yapp and Picospan have support for shared conferences via email. 
I'm uncertain how to do it as I've never really looked into it, but I
know it's possible.

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