Re: Digests/Newsfeed?
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Norbert Veber wrote:
> I've noticed that (with my isp at least) all the messages from the list get
> placed into the newsgroup, but when I post to the newsgroup
> (linux.debian.dev) the message never makes it to the list. Is that the way
> it was meant to be, or is it just something screwed up with my isp?
It is likely that they are carrying the lists as moderated or no posting
allowed. If they are carrying them as moderated, the headers are getting
screwed up and the list server is probably rejecting them. I had to hack
injnews to put the headers in a format that would be accepted by the list.
The reason is that it wraps a set of mail headers around the news headers
and the list server does not expect to have to strip these out like news
moderating software would. SO, the list gets mail from news@your-isp.com
and since that address is not subscribed, the message is rejected. Even
if you DO fix the sender problem, it still puts a blank line between the
mail and the news headers so people's mail readers are not going to pick
up your Subject: header, etc.
I finally fixed it by hacking the injection script to do a sendmail -T
<modart or something like that after manually adding a To: header.
It was gross.
The way we do it on the monolith mailing lists is set the groups up as
moderated with the moderator address pointing to a gatebot that strips the
mail transit headers and adds a To: header of the mailing list before
moving it on. The mailing list looks at the From: and if the person is
subscribed, it accepts the posting to the mailing list. One copy is also
posted back to a mail->news gateway for distribution. It works rather
well. Users can subscribe to a special posting-only list so that the
mailing list accepts their postings from the moderator bot but emails them
nothing...they read it on the newsgroup. That is a high traffic list. If
only 10 people read it via news and if there are 100 postings in a day, it
saves the mail server 1000 mailings.
George Bonser
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