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Re: [RFR] templates://leafnode/{templates}



On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:38:30PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:

> - Whoever is providing you with internet access should provide information about
> - which server to use to download news. Typically this server is called
> - something like "news.domain" or "nntp.domain".
> + The name of the news server should be provided by your Internet
> + service provider or your organization.

Shouldn't either all or none of ISP be capitalised?

> + Access control will prevent any computers except
> + the news server itself to access newsgroups data. Later modifications of
> + /etc/hosts.allow may broaden this restriction to other machines if
> + necessary.

There's some gramatical nits here...  How about this instead:

  Access controls will prevent computers other than the news server
  itself reading or posting to newsgroups using the server. If required
  access can be granted to other computers by editing /etc/hosts.allow.

> - If you choose to update the list of groups during package set up then
> + If you choose to update the list of groups,
>   newsgroups will be available to clients as soon as Leafnode has been
>   set up.

> "during package set up" seems obvious

Not quite so obvious as one might hope, unfortunately.  The confusion is
more to do with having the option of never updating than anything else.

> +_Description: Remove news groups and articles when purging the package?
> + The /var/spool/news directory holds the database of news articles

  The directory /var/spool/news...

> I suggest moving "leaf" to the long description. May be disturbing for
> non technical users.

It's probably better to just remove it entirely rather than move it into
the log description.  It's not important enough to lift it in like that.

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