Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:58:20AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 5 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It's fine if you get it right and it's well-maintained - just pointing
> > out that the standard loop problem is probably why the newsadmin
> > responsible for the gateway hasn't set it up.
>
> Actually, I believe this is up to the mail admin to check for loops,
> simply because without loop checking, I could just subscribe to the
> list and set my .forward to the list. This would wreak hell.
In a good setup both sides should check for loops, just to be sure.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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