Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: Posting to GNU newsgroups is a no-no Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 89 21:39:35 GMT References: <638@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 40 In-reply-to: mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov's message of 1 Dec 89 18:24:36 GMT mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov writes: I always assumed that they were bidirectionally gatewayed with the mailing lists. Is this not true? Is the gateway only unidirectional, from the mailing lists to the groups? The gateways are bidirectional. Things posted to gnu.Stuff get sent to info-gnu-Stuff and vice versa. merlyn@iwarp.intel.com writes: (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 That's what the gateway does. There's a whole herd of aliases at OSU which inhale mailing list stuff and toss it into the relevant gnu.Stuff group, and hordes of /usr/lib/news/sys lines which pull out the gnu.Stuff postings and spit them back out to the info-gnu-Stuff lists. It's Erik Fair's newsgate (or news2mail) code. Weird stuff. Functional and pretty complete, but weird. The only exceptions are gnu.config and gnu.test, which exist as newsgroups only, for obvious reasons. The only non-obvious news/mail mapping is (I think) gnu.announce, which maps to info-gnu. (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. This and other suggestions are being considered. I just wrote Len some mail about this a little while ago; we'll hash it out sometime soon. Who can we get to do this properly? Well, I rather thought we were doing it OK in the first place. If things aren't getting between news and mail, then there's a breakage somewhere, and to my knowledge, it isn't broken here, nor in Len's list management. --Karl Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com