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Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops



On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:56:59PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > (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.)
> 
> OK, now that I've finally understood what people have been
> explaining over and over for the past two days...
> 
> Here's another suggestion:
> 
> In the muc groups' articles, why not set the "followup-to:"
> header to be the mailing list e-mail address?
> 
> I don't think that can cause a loop, and it will allow people
> to follow-up from newsreaders.

Sounds plausible (as long as the Followup-To: header isn't already set,
maybe?). I forget who runs the muc.linux.debian.* lists - you might have
to track it down from the Path: header or something in order to make the
request directly.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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