Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: Purpose Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 20:02:32 GMT References: <8911150658.AA00254@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <1989Nov16.142657.11437@talos.uucp> <48457@bbn.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Distribution: gnu Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: news@bbn.COM's message of 18 Nov 89 16:46:45 GMT In article <48457@bbn.COM> pplaceway@bbn.COM (Paul Placeway) writes: Therefore, if you want a mailing list relay, make it _obviously_ a mailing list relay: make it quasi-moderated (moderator = mailing list relay alias), and put mailing list noise at the beginning or end of the articles. I've made just this suggestion a couple different times. Both times my suggestion evaporated. I will try again. Make the gnu.* newsgroups moderated. The "moderator's address" can be nothing more than the appropriate mailing list. The mailing list output can be injected into the correct gnu.* newsgroup, simply by adding an Approved: header (I think). The latest versions of Usenet News automatically mail postings to moderated groups to the "moderator". Will this be oh-so-very-hard to implement? Sounds like a couple hours worth of work for the right person with a little News background. -- Skip Montanaro (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)