From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 17:59:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA15216 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:59:23 -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 RAA15193 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:58:59 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id CAA02825; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:00:05 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504240100.CAA02825@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:00:04 +0100 (BST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504232330.QAA28279@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 23, 95 04:30:48 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: 1742 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Julian Elischer who said > > 'questions' is gated to the news group by being sent to an alias > 'news' > > all 'news' items have the following headder tacked on the FRONT of them > before being gated to usenet: > > **************************************************************************** > * This article has been forwarded to USENET from the FreeBSD-questions * > * mailing list. It's appearance here on USENET is for informational * > * purposes only. Replies to USENET on this topic will NOT be seen * > * by the original posters. to reply, send mail to: * > * FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org * > * send mail to majordome@FreeBSD.org, stating 'help' for more information * > **************************************************************************** > > Note: this is a ONE WAY gate, that allows people to see the activity > and makes it explicitly known what to do to respond.. The reply-to field can be set to the appropriate list too. That would at least provide an easy way to contact us. This is an interesting idea. It'll basically do what I'd like to see, which is provide a more accurate impression of how active this project is in the newsgroups and it also seems to solve all the drawbacks that people have so far raised. Hmm, if this was acceptable we could gate all the "general" mailing lists to the newsgroups in this way. They'd look like the linux newsgroups 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.