From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 13:54:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gelemna.org (cc466188-a.pinev1.in.home.com [24.17.49.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F5437B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by gelemna.org (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9IKrne00756; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:53:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.org) To: Matthew Rochlin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list vs. newsgroup? References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001018090345.018cf0d0@pop3.norton.antivirus> From: Don Croyle Date: 18 Oct 2000 15:53:49 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Matthew Rochlin's message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:07:52 -0700" Message-ID: <86aec1na5e.fsf@emerson.gelemna.org> Lines: 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Rochlin 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