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 -- Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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