Marc G Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> We are doing that specifically for that reason ... In order to provide
> redundancy, we currently have two mail<->news gateways of the mailing
> lists in place, and the MessageIds are what prevents duplicates ...
Yeah, I just found out about that today. Well, that's a fairly good
reason... it means that you'll probably have to jump on anyone who also
tries to gateway the groups without changing message IDs, but if you're
willing to deal with the problems, other groups are using the same form of
gatewaying.
> ppl keep saying this, but that is not how the groups are setup ... if
> someone isn't subscribed to the list, the message goes to the mailing
> list moderator (me) to approve to the list ... the only thing that
> doesn't go to the lists is spam ...
Yeah, I understand it's not how the groups are set up, but it does seem a
little confusing. (Posting to a Usenet newsgroup and getting an e-mail
reply saying that my mailing list message is being held for approval, for
example.) I think it's a really good idea to make the groups official, at
least the ones that get enough traffic for it to be worth it, and there
are certainly other gatewayed mailing lists in comp.*, but it just seems
like while we're looking at this, it might be better to make them
moderated to make the whole process a bit more straightforward.
I could be convinced that it doesn't really matter, though.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>