Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian
Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm> said on Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:12:47 +0200:
> "Fortunatly, linux.* *IS* a bidirectional gateway, unless your news
> server is misconfigured.".
>
> I'm confused. Is the gateway bidirectional and is almost everyone's news
> server misconfigured? Is everyone doing something wrong? Or is it just me?
With our current news software, I don't recall having done any tests
recently with the various news groups that end up mailing stuff to a
moderator.
I think sci.astro.research does this - and it works for me.
I don't recall whether I have ever posted to sci.astro.fits, but
no-one has ever complained about it not working there.
I have a feeling alt.humor.best-of-usenet is meant to mail to a
moderator if you post to that group, but I just mail the moderator
address manually.
Same with the internet oracle - I can't think of any decent queries to
ask it right now, so I'm afraid I can't test it :)
I know that if a group asks the client to followup to another group
(rec.humor.oracle -> rec.humor.oracle.d and AHBOU to AHBOUD, etc), my
client (slrn) obeys that request properly.
So it seems perhaps this whole gateway news<-->mail thing is perhaps a
hit-and-miss affair.
--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-- Ernest Rutherford
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