Re: starnge behavior of the list
In article <y9h3ekehu3v.fsf@always.got.net>,
che@debian.org (Ben Gertzfield) writes:
> I've gotten them all twice today as well -- from what seems to be a
> usenet <-> debian-user gateway somewhere in Britain.
Looks to me like the gateway operator overlooked the Distribution: header in
his news/mail gateway. This weekend I completed setting up the Newsgate
package so I've had the (dis)pleasure of getting it all to work.
What I found (as usual the docs are just a bit opaque) is that, when
gatewaying mail to news you can specify a distribution header. I do it
like this in my .procmailrc (note the -d switch):
:0:
* ^TOdebian-user
| /usr/bin/mail2news -n debian.user -d local -x internet
^^^^^^^^
Then, to keep your news2mail gateway from redistributing the messages that
have arrived through your mail2news gateway, you exclude that particular
distribution like this (from my cnews /etc/news/sys file):
internet:debian.user/all,!local::news2mail debian-user@lists.debian.org
^^^^^^^^^^
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