From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 22 12:29:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA00190 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 12:29:48 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00184 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 12:29:47 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA28513; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 20:30:29 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504221930.UAA28513@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 20:30:29 +0100 (BST) Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504212038.NAA09380@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 21, 95 01:38:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 676 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > > > > Great idea. We definitely need a stronger usenet presence. > > One way gating is a bad idea, people would follow up to some posting > from the mailling list and it would never get to the original poster. > > This causes disjoint conversations that can confuse a situation very > badly! Yeah, right. Ok. What do people think about a full hackers<->comp.os.freebsd gateway then? -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.