Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated
>> newsgroups, but postings to muc.l.d.u don't seem to get mailed
>> to the list. Why not set up muc.l.d.u as a moderated group
>> with postings going to the mailing list?
>
> Bidirectional mail<->news gatewaying is very delicate - get it wrong and
> you'll have mail loops from hell. It's often simpler just to avoid the
> issue.
Right. That's why I'm not suggesting a bi-directional gateway
(not in the traditional sense of the word).
I'm suggesting a moderated group where postings that would
normally go to the "moderator" directly to the mailing list.
The gateway is still unidirectional: mail->news.
Right now, people who read the newsgroup have no idea that
their postings aren't seen by the mailing list readers.
[Perhaps I'm the only one who does it, but I repeatedly start
to post follow-ups only to have to save the article and mail-it
later.]
Maybe there's a way to configure slrn to e-mail postings to
specific groups to certain addresses...
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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