Automated message to d-u gateway
[Open message Cc'ed to Marco d'Itri]
I am interested in seeing a short, descriptive, automated post on the
debian-user gateway (and to the debian-user gateway only), and have
posted about this recently to the list.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00774.html
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-> Veering [further] off-topic, I notice that at least one other person
-> has posted a genuine question to the News gateway in the last few days
-> (the person was admirably helped by someone else reading and posting
-> to the gateway). I guess it is non-obvious to some people grazing
-> Usenet that the gateway is meant to be RO. I am wondering if a post
-> to the gateway could be automated to go out every week or two just to
-> clarify this to the Usenet denizens (who may have legitimate questions
-> for the list)?
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-> It could say something like:
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-> This is intended to be a Read-Only gateway to Usenet News of the
-> debian-user mailing-list. People who wish to post to this list should
-> send an e-mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject
-> of "subscribe", and then post to the list using their mail client.
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Paul Johnson said he would be game to do this.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00782.html
Colin Watson suggested that the third party who is responsible for the
News-gateway, should be consulted.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00787.html
Do you Marco, or anyone else, have any suggestions or objections with
regard to automating such a post to the News-gateways for the debian-
user list?
Thank-you Marco, for your packages, your gateways, and your time. I
appreciate all of those every day.
Tony
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