From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 7 22:35:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10697 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0050.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.188.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10689 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 22:35:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA63110; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:34:36 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:34:36 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Narvi cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News Server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Narvi wrote: > > [cc: list trimmed. It's a stupid message anyways] > > On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > I don't really see the need, people can pick it up someplace > > > and if they don't want it they can say no. > > > > Yeah, but Joel will send out rmgroup messages to all and sundry for > > anything which doesn't meet his (prior) approval. > > > > Can I sell you a bad idea? A really bad idea that just might work? > > Include a patch on www.freebsd.org for the news system > (inn, etc.) that disables group operations for freebsd.* > with a message that it is needed if you want to have the feed. First off, haven't got a clue who this Joel guy is, but I just went through the INN control.ctl file from the most -current source tree, and, by default, except for special circumstances, rmgroup's are just logged, but not acted upon... The only rmgroup's honor'd in the 'top 8 hierarchies', which consist of: comp, misc, news, sci, soc, talk, rec, humanities are those issued by group-admin@isc.org ... This is all default for INN 2.x ... so creating and propogating a freebsd.* hierarchy would be doable (I'd be willing to carry/propogate it) and for those running *at least* newer INN servers, this Joel guy would have no power... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message