In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Gertzfield) writes: > I've gotten them all twice today as well -- from what seems to be a > usenet <-> debian-user gateway somewhere in Britain.
Looks to me like the gateway operator overlooked the Distribution: header in his news/mail gateway. This weekend I completed setting up the Newsgate package so I've had the (dis)pleasure of getting it all to work. What I found (as usual the docs are just a bit opaque) is that, when gatewaying mail to news you can specify a distribution header. I do it like this in my .procmailrc (note the -d switch): :0: * ^TOdebian-user | /usr/bin/mail2news -n debian.user -d local -x internet ^^^^^^^^ Then, to keep your news2mail gateway from redistributing the messages that have arrived through your mail2news gateway, you exclude that particular distribution like this (from my cnews /etc/news/sys file): internet:debian.user/all,!local::news2mail debian-user@lists.debian.org ^^^^^^^^^^ -- _ _ Steve Kostecke | (_)_ __ _ ___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / http://kostecke.home.ml.org | | | | | | |_| |> < |_|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .