Hello Tildas,

this is somewhat surreal, I write my first news post after 30 odd years, using rtin.

Sorry if this is totally the wrong place to do so, but traffic is low here, so I
dared to do it. I am in the process of setting up a new tilde "bonn.cafe" and am
looking for inspiration as to what services to provide. Is there a friendly guide
somewhere that I have overlooked?

Obviously, I have installed alpine for local news and tin for accessing news groups. I was wondering if muds are a thing in tildeverse?

Best,
-- Olav
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On 2022-05-06, Olav Schettler <olav@bonn.cafe> wrote:

I am in the process of setting up a new tilde "bonn.cafe" and am
looking for inspiration as to what services to provide. Is there a
friendly guide somewhere that I have overlooked?

Congrats on your new tilde! I don't have any guides to present, but I
can suggest starting off by looking up some how-tos on hardening your
OS. Since it'll be a shared system you'll want to make sure you're fully buttoned up with the basics before you invite people in. Stay on top of
system updates and subscribe to security updates for your OS so you're
aware when vulnerabilities come out.

Depending on the size your tilde grows to you may want to look into
setting resource limits for users: disk quotas, memory & cpu limits,
etc.

Once you have all the technical block and tackle done, I'd focus on
making the experience for your users better. Welcome emails, sign up
guides, helpful tools, ways to request software, games, collaboration
tools, etc. Take notes on what you do. Keep a change-log and make it
accessible so your users can learn what's new.

Have some fun with it! good luck
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Wonder if it'd make sense to kill off this group.. or would that be a big pain?

On 2022-05-15, Deepend <deepend@rdnetbbs.com.remove-9sx-this> wrote:

To: James Tomasino
Wonder if it'd make sense to kill off this group.. or would that be a
big pain?
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Oh, yeah, I suppose so. Our tilde namespace is gonna need some love and planning moving forward if we peer with other pubnix and smallnet
friends. Perhaps we should do a thorough double-check of our structure
so we don't have more problems later
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James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:

On 2022-05-15, Deepend <deepend@rdnetbbs.com.remove-9sx-this> wrote:

To: James Tomasino
Wonder if it'd make sense to kill off this group.. or would that be a
big pain?

Oh, yeah, I suppose so.

Perhaps just set it to read-only (which I assume is possible on a
per-server basis, based on Usenet news servers), so that old posts
can still be viewed on servers that don't expire them?

Though I guess then any server that doesn't mark it as read-only
allows people to send posts that others can't reply to, so maybe
not...
--

- The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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On Mon, 16 May 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

Perhaps just set it to read-only (which I assume is possible on a
per-server basis, based on Usenet news servers), so that old posts
can still be viewed on servers that don't expire them?

I also support archiving (i.e. set read-only and append
" (ARCHIVED)" to its description), as opposed to nuking
(i.e. deleting) such newsgroups.

Though I guess then any server that doesn't mark it as read-only
allows people to send posts that others can't reply to

At the surface, it may look like that;
but as group management here is done by hand at individual server,
I will argue that an un-coordinated deletion, as we are using now,
will result in more or less the same thing.
(For example: if you're connecting via Tilde.club's news server,
you would notice that `tilde.black` newsgroup is still here)

And I would also note that coordination-wise, it would be easier for me
to waltz into Tilde.team and ask ~ben to apply a two-line change [1]
at INN `readers.conf` configuration block to set the newsgroup read-only (provided that such change is tested to work at Tilde.club),
rather than asking a newsgroup to be deleted.

(Then after that, ~tomasino could configure cosmic.voyage to stop passing message on such groups whenever the leisure/time allows;
or that part could even be left as-is as well)

So my choice is still archiving, rather than nuking.

Regards,
~xwindows
(Tilde.club's unofficial Netnews wrangler)


P.S. I should also talk to ~deepend about archiving `tilde.black`
here on Tilde.club as well, while I'm still at it.

[1] Or probably 5-line change if the intention is to make it unpostable
for local administrator as well.
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