From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 13:14:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA29126 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA29121 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:14:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA12499; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:00:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701182100.OAA12499@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: GATEWAY CONFIGURATION ERROR!!! To: adonai@jump.net Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:00:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You are infinitely reflecting FreeBSD hackers list articles. Please fix your gateway: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to correctly configure a list exploder or a mail/news gateway: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From list to be gated From local posting to local list alias | | v v o <-----------------------------o | | v v To local distribution To list to be gated ie, for a list exploder/repeater, an alias file like: ------------------------------------------------------------------- freebsd-hackers-in: freebsd-users freebsd-hackers: freebsd-users freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org freebsd-users: localuser1 localuser2 localuser3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- And then subscribe freebsd-hackers-in@gateway to the freebsd-hackers list on freebsd.org. This will prevent messages coming from hackers@freebsd.org being sent *back* to hackers@freebsd.org, and spamming the list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.