On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
| On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
| > In article <[🔎] 20020505171605.GA25747@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>, Colin Watson wrote:
| > > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Grant Edwards 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. Almost sounds like something that was originally a
| newsgroup and then had a mail gateway retrofitted to it ... 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.
comp.lang.python and python-list@python.org have a bidirectional
mail<->news gateway. I don't know any more than it exists and is
well-maintained (and thus doesn't have loops).
-D
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