Is the newsgroup going to be turned off?

On 4/21/2016 2:50 AM, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

I see that Element14 is testing direct access to EagleCentral. The only

reason I can see for that is that Element 14 intend to close down the

Cadsoft news reader service.

 

Can any one from Cadsoft confirm that?

 

Regards

Warren

Hi Warren,

I'm not aware of anything of that nature going on. With that said, maybe

they've decided that it's best to mirror to an HTTP site then to the

newsgroup directly. In any case we've all mentioned that EAGLE Central's

interface to NNTP is superior so maybe they are trying to leverage that.

At this point you know as much as I do.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia wrote on Thu, 21 April 2016 15:56

On 4/21/2016 2:50 AM, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

I see that Element14 is testing direct access to EagleCentral. The

only

reason I can see for that is that Element 14 intend to close down

the

Cadsoft news reader service.

 

Can any one from Cadsoft confirm that?

 

Regards

Warren

Hi Warren,

 

I'm not aware of anything of that nature going on. With that said,

maybe

they've decided that it's best to mirror to an HTTP site then to the

newsgroup directly. In any case we've all mentioned that EAGLE

Central's

interface to NNTP is superior so maybe they are trying to leverage

that.

 

At this point you know as much as I do.

 

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

So let me get this straight:  Element 14, powered and funded by a

multi-national corporation with a whole IT department at its disposal can't

figure out how to mirror NNTP groups.  So they decide instead to scrape the

messages from EAGLE Central.  EAGLE Central itself is run by one person

(me), part time, with not a lot of IT expertise and it has run reliably for

many, many years.  That is really ironic.

If this is what Element 14 is doing then it's the wrong way about it.  They

should be dealing with the official NNTP forum just like I'm doing at EAGLE

Central.  Doing anything else is just asking for problems.

To be clear about this, EAGLE Central is mirroring the NNTP forums because

the NNTP forums ARE the official forums.  We felt, in 2009, that perhaps

there was a more universal way to interact with the support forums and

added the web interface.  We obtained permission from CadSoft directly and

intentionally mirrored the NNTP forums so the community would be kept

together (unlike other attempts of Yahoo groups etc).

I like that people thing we do such a good job that we must be the official

forums, but that isn't true.

James.

--

James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

Order your EAGLE license from Stratford Digital at

http://www.eaglelicenses.com

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Jorge Garcia wrote on Thu, 21 April 2016 15:56

On 4/21/2016 2:50 AM, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

I see that Element14 is testing direct access to EagleCentral. The

only

reason I can see for that is that Element 14 intend to close down

the

Cadsoft news reader service.

 

Can any one from Cadsoft confirm that?

 

Regards

Warren

Hi Warren,

 

I'm not aware of anything of that nature going on. With that said,

maybe

they've decided that it's best to mirror to an HTTP site then to the

newsgroup directly. In any case we've all mentioned that EAGLE

Central's

interface to NNTP is superior so maybe they are trying to leverage

that.

 

At this point you know as much as I do.

 

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

So let me get this straight:  Element 14, powered and funded by a

multi-national corporation with a whole IT department at its disposal can't

figure out how to mirror NNTP groups.  So they decide instead to scrape the

messages from EAGLE Central.  EAGLE Central itself is run by one person

(me), part time, with not a lot of IT expertise and it has run reliably for

many, many years.  That is really ironic.

If this is what Element 14 is doing then it's the wrong way about it.  They

should be dealing with the official NNTP forum just like I'm doing at EAGLE

Central.  Doing anything else is just asking for problems.

To be clear about this, EAGLE Central is mirroring the NNTP forums because

the NNTP forums ARE the official forums.  We felt, in 2009, that perhaps

there was a more universal way to interact with the support forums and

added the web interface.  We obtained permission from CadSoft directly and

intentionally mirrored the NNTP forums so the community would be kept

together (unlike other attempts of Yahoo groups etc).

I like that people thing we do such a good job that we must be the official

forums, but that isn't true.

James.

--

James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

Order your EAGLE license from Stratford Digital at

http://www.eaglelicenses.com

--

Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.