Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian
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Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:
>>"If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and
>>wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup
>>and NOT to directly reply to the list."
> Yes. Mail replies will break threading.
Mail replies will break threading, unless you're using an MUA that is
also NNTP-aware or vice-versa. Gnus is an example of a user agent
that doesn't choke on protocol change.
> The gateway is open to everyone with a valid email address, which is
> something you would expect from users posting to a mailing list. If
> somebody thinks that munging their address when posting to usenet
> will keep it secret forever... well, they will quickly have to face
> reality anyway.
For unusually small values of forever.
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