Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:00:22PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > In the muc groups' articles, why not set the "followup-to:" > > header to be the mailing list e-mail address? > > Because newsreaders are expecting newsgroups to be listed in the

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > In the muc groups' articles, why not set the "followup-to:" > header to be the mailing list e-mail address? Because newsreaders are expecting newsgroups to be listed in the followup-to, and it wouldn't work? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:56:59PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > (I think it would be a good idea for debian-user shadow > > newsgroups to be moderated anyway, if nothing else so that they > > can point to a mailbot that tells people

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know how "odd" it is, but I have confirmed that it >doesn't used the moderation mechanism. It uses an NNTP client >program that harvests articles and sends them to the mailing >list (discarding articles that origina

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > (I think it would be a good idea for debian-user shadow > newsgroups to be moderated anyway, if nothing else so that they > can point to a mailbot that tells people they should be mailing > articles to the mailing list. However, I'm n

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:53:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I don't see how there is a possibility of a loop. If there _is_ > > danger of a loop, it must already be there, since I'm not > > proposing that the gateway functionaly be changed in any way. > > I'm surprised you don't see any ex

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread dman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:19:44AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: ... | Right. But I was proposing that the muc.* list be moderated. | When somebody "posts" to a moderated group, | the articled doesn't get posted directly to the newsgroup. The | article is e-mailed to a "moderator". What happens wh

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:19:44AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > Right. But I was proposing that the muc.* list be moderated. > When somebody "posts" to a moderated group, the articled > doesn't get posted directly to the newsgroup. The article is > e-mailed to a "moderator". > > My proposal was

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
Path: ruti.visi.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) Subject: Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Lin

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread dman
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:36:46PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: | On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | > (I think it would be a good idea for debian-user shadow newsgroups to be | > moderated anyway, if nothing else so that they can point to a mailbot | > that tells peop

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-06 Thread dman
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: | > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson wrote: | > > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: | > >> I'm suggesting a moderated group where p

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 09:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > >> I'm suggesting a moderated group where postings that would > > >> normally go to the "moderator" directly to the mailing list. > > >> The gateway is still unidirectional: mail->news. > > > > > > Yup, that's how everybody else do

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I'm suggesting a moderated group where postings that would > >> normally go to the "moderator" directly to the

Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated >> >> newsgroups, but pos

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:58:20AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 5 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > It's fine if you get it right and it's well-maintained - just pointing > > out that the standard loop problem is probably why the newsadmin > > responsible for the gateway hasn't set

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > It's fine if you get it right and it's well-maintained - just pointing > out that the standard loop problem is probably why the newsadmin > responsible for the gateway hasn't set it up. Actually, I believe this is up to the mail admin to check for loops,

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated > >> newsgroups, but postings to muc.l.d.u don't seem to get mailed > >> to the li

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: >> This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated >> newsgroups, but postings to muc.l.d.u don't seem to get mailed >> to the list. Why not set up muc.l.d.u as a moderated group >> with postings going to the mailing lis

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:13:51AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > This sounds like the exact same mechanism used by moderated > newsgroups, but postings to muc.l.d.u don't seem to get mailed > to the list. Why not set up muc.l.d.u as a moderated group > with postings going to the mailing list? Bid

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 08:02:01AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 5 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > a: What is the realistic lag between messages in the mailing list > >and in "linux.debian.user" news group? > > It varies by propagation path. Not long. Try muc.linux.deb

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Keith O'Connell wrote: > a: What is the realistic lag between messages in the mailing list >and in "linux.debian.user" news group? It varies by propagation path. Not long. Try muc.linux.debian(?), as it's the anointed official mirror group. > b: Do all the messages sent

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread dsr
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 01:28:39PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >As must be apparent, I am thinking of taking this mailing list via > >newsgroups and I just want to see the down side, if any. > > It might

Re: Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can someone advise me, assuming a "good" newsgroup feed\supplier, > >a: What is the realistic lag between messages in the mailing list > and in "linux.debian.user" news group? No idea. >b: Do all the messages sent to t

Mailing List and Newsgruops

2002-05-05 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, Can someone advise me, assuming a "good" newsgroup feed\supplier, a: What is the realistic lag between messages in the mailing list and in "linux.debian.user" news group? b: Do all the messages sent to the mailing list get to the newsgroup? c: Can a person write to the mailing list by po