On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:48:56PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:34:45PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I feel someone should contact Marco d'Itri who runs the bofh.it > > gateway, and ask his opinion about automating that small message about > > the gateway being Read-Only. I am happy to do this (in the next week > > or two) and get back to the list. How does that sound? > > Well, do you want to do it, or should I? It's pretty reasonable to > assume that the news servers are propagating to each other.
Please go ahead and do it Paul. There is usually a one-line description of a newsgroup which is displayed beside one's personal list of subscribed newsgroups. It gives a very short summary of what the newsgroup is supposed to be about. If linux.debian.user had the description, "Read-Only. Please subscribe to mailing-list to post", or some such, this would do the trick I think. This is maybe what Karsten was referring to when he mentioned that "newsgroup descriptions" are the proper repository for such a message. (I just thought of this. I'll ask him in a sec. I was trying to think what he meant by that.) Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]