Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 01:25:06 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed gateways. Message-ID: <199504260025.BAA13779@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199504260016.RAA09230@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 25, 95 05:16:06 pm
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In reply to Julian Elischer who said > ...... > I would rather see a one way gate of questions.. > two way will send followups to questions as well. > I don't think we need this.. > what we DO want is the ANSWERS to go to the usenet group as well however, > > > 'question by mail' ---------->mojordomo------------>list with reply to: > | set to user and 'answers' > | > |----------------> Usenet > Reply-to: > set to user and 'answers' > "REPLY BE EMAIL" added. > > 'answer by mail' ---------->mojordomo------------>list > | > |----------------> Usenet Umm, if you reply to an usenet message and it gets sent to majordomo it's going to end up back on usenet anyway isn't it? I don't quite follow what you're getting at here. The reply-to field in the usenet posting would point to questions@freebsd.org so the list would see the reply and it would go back to usenet as well. This is effectively a two way gate and what I advocated. The follow-up field has to point to question too otherwise replies from the usenet side won't be seen back on questions. > > We need a higher profile on usenet, questions will basically be sacrificed > > for this purpose, If people feel that questions becomes too much for them > > then it's up to them whether they stick with it. In fact, discussion has > > suggested that many people have already made this decision and unsubscribed > > so those of us left probably don't mind the load :-) > questions will become the same as usenet.. this is not good > questions should have questions... > answers on 'answers' Umm, what exactly are you on about? Two lists, one for answers? seems pretty silly to me. -- 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.
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