Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogccse!littlei!omepd!merlyn From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: Posting to GNU newsgroups is a no-no Message-ID: <5300@omepd.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 89 17:23:09 GMT References: Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Distribution: gnu Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 33 In-reply-to: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) In article , montnaro@sprite (Skip Montanaro) writes: | I occasionally want to post to the gnu.* newsgroups but can never remember | the mailing lists to post to, or forget I'm supposed to mail, not post. (You | are supposed to send mail to a mailing list which is fed into the gnu.* | newsgroups.) Accordingly, my messages either disappear into thin air, they | don't reach everyone they should, or I get flamed for doing things wrong. | | Below is a set of mail aliases to put in your ~/.mailrc file, extracted from | the MAILINGLISTS file that came with GNU Emacs 18.55. One would hope the | addresses are all correct. I faked gnu.emacs.ada just for completeness. [...] If the posted articles do not find their way back to the mailing lists, there are two solutions: (1) run the same software that at least a dozen other newsgroups use that takes articles from the UseNet side and reflects them (properly!) to the mailing list, or (2) make all the gnu.* groups (except gnu.config :-) MODERATED, with the moderator address setup to do the reflection into the proper mailing list, which will then throw back the article to the UseNet side. Setting the system up the way you've just described it is irresponsible (if it truly is that brain damaged...). Who can we get to do this properly? -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com