Date: 18 Oct 2000 15:53:49 -0500 From: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.org> To: Matthew Rochlin <rochlin@mediaone.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Message-ID: <86aec1na5e.fsf@emerson.gelemna.org> In-Reply-To: Matthew Rochlin's message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:07:52 -0700" References: <bulk.91359.20001018022008@hub.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20001018090345.018cf0d0@pop3.norton.antivirus>
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Matthew Rochlin <rochlin@mediaone.net> writes: > Just curious (and forgive me if this is one of those holy war kind of > questions - I don't mean to be flame-bait). > > Is there a reason this is a mailing list instead of a newsgroup? Worldwide newsgroups are harder to keep clean and are subject to propagation problems. I'm reading this in gelemna.list.freebsd.questions (a non-distributed newsgroup on a machine not reachable from outside my LAN). Gatewaying mailing lists to non-local newsgroups, especially bidirectionally, is generally considered a bad idea, but gatewaying to local groups is fairly easy. The news/p5-Gateway port comes with a sample listgate program that needs only a little editing to be usable. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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