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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Re: GNU Mailing Lists
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Date: 28 Aug 89 21:27:26 GMT
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/ gnu.misc.discuss / bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) / Aug 28 /
The best general solution, with the greatest "effect leverage", would
be to persuade administrators of systems that generate non-useful
headers (bad From:, no Reply-To:) to fix their news systms.
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Exactly.  RMS's request for having the submissions mailed instead of posted
should apply only to these misconfigured sites.


There's another request that he frequently posts: to leave gnu-X lists
[gnu.X groups] for announcements, and submit questions and bug reports to
bug-X [gnu.X.bug] instead (where X is "gcc", "g++", etc.).

Perhaps it would help to rename the groups gatewayed with
"announcement-list" into gnu.X.announce?

I realize that the original naming of the groups was chosen to correspond
as closely as possible to the naming of the mailing lists, but many readers
of gnu.* don't know the gnu mailing list naming conventions, and rely on
the group names for guidance.

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