Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > Yup, that's how everybody else does bidirectional gateways too.
> >
> > Really? The other group I read that has an e-mail gateway
> > doesn't seem to be set up that way. I (and anybody else) can
> > post directly to the group. There are no "Approved:" headers.
> > AFAICT, it is not a moderated group. However they set up the
> > news<->email gateway, it does not look like it uses the
> > mechanism I described.
>
> That's very odd then.
I don't know how "odd" it is, but I have confirmed that it
doesn't used the moderation mechanism. It uses an NNTP client
program that harvests articles and sends them to the mailing
list (discarding articles that originated from the mailing list).
Using the moderated group mechanism is definitly not "how
everybody else does bidirectional gateways too". I've checked,
and none of the other gated newsgroups I've read were set up as
moderted either.
> Almost sounds like something that was originally a
> newsgroup and then had a mail gateway retrofitted to it
Probably.
> ... I certainly don't think it's usual for mailing lists that
> get gated to news, like this case. Creating two different
> canonical sources of articles is likely to cause confusion.
How so? If you set up a moderated newsgroup, then postings get
mailed to the list (just like postings do now). The gateway
still treats usenet as a write-only medium. Why is there any
danger of a loop if slrn mails the article rather than mutt?
> (I think it would be a good idea for debian-user shadow newsgroups to be
> moderated anyway, if nothing else so that they can point to a mailbot
> that tells people they should be mailing articles to the mailing list.
> However, I'm not even sure if the person who would handle that reads
> this list.)
Why not just mail the article to the mailing list?
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Grant Edwards
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