Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 06:16:21 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: mail<->news gateway.. (yes.. again..) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950516055435.16341C-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM>
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Before you all cringe in terror, I'm not talking about a Usenet gateway.. :-) What I've done in the past, is have various mailing lists gatewayed into a local newsgroup (uni-directional). This seems to come up every so often, and it's so much more convenient to read and follow, but it's not entirely trivial to set up. What about this: Suppose I was to reconfigure it to be bidirectional (I'm using a relative of the same software that runs the gnu.* groups <-> gnu mailing lists gateway) and nntp feed it to various other sites. How many people would be interested in getting a pre-packaged, functional news group set? Since I am on a volume charged internet link, obviously there's a limit to what I could/would do. I'd be happy to feed up to about half a dozen sites at the most, and *only* to other sites that would be prepared to "pass it on". Note that this wont be like opening up the lists to every Joe Bloggs on the internet with his windoze box asking "what's freebsd" after seeing the groups on his menu, or posting "AnY NeW c00l WaReZ??!!!!!" on the hackers newsgroup... Since it would be a deliberate act to get it onto one's system, it will be out of reach of the great unwashed masses for quite some time. If it turned out to be too popular, I'd have to find somewhere else to move it to, but by then the concept would be proven (or disproved). Now that I think about it, it could probably be done for the existing freebsd newsgroups as well for those that dont like the news system. Note that I'm *not* prepared to do a mailing list explode for them - that would have to be done by somebody else..) Obviously, if I get letterbombs or lots of "NOOOOO!!!" then I'll reconsider... I'm just exploring the possibility.. Cheers, -Peter
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