[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carel Fellinger) wrote: >I could switch to the digest of the mailinglist but I prefer news. >I could bridge the mailinglist locally, but I heard that you object.
Do they? I have mail2news set up locally; I wouldn't read debian-* if I hadn't. I've been intending to learn to use a better mail reader than Pine for ages (probably mutt), but I haven't got round to it, and I can't read this sort of list unthreaded. All I did was newgroup a few moderated groups on my local news server and write a few mildly demented lines of exim filter (available upon request, if people don't want to write their own). The only problems I had were when a couple of error messages accidentally bounced to debian-user-request :( - fortunately, they didn't seem to go to debian-user. Remember to actually test your filter files before installing them and you should be OK. I haven't got news2mail working yet, largely due to lack of time and inclination; I'm quite happy to use reply by mail and let a custom bit of my trn $MAILHEADER variable set the headers up properly. I can imagine there being objections to the possibility of lots of errors bouncing to debian-user, but I'm afraid that I'll probably leave my mail2news gateway running now. It can't be a global ban anyway - I know that Ian Jackson gateways bits of debian-*, though he may be a special case due to being a lot more competent than most. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]
