Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:04:43 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup Message-ID: <20091204130443.GC1130@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <20091204054155.GV1388@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> References: <20091204054155.GV1388@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au>
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--GPJrCs/72TxItFYR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:41:56PM +1100, John Marshall wrote: > ... > I suggest that the FreeBSD Project: > 1. Respond to the MVI proposing a new moderator for the newsgroup; > 2. Arrange for the freebsd-announce mailing list to be gated to > the newsgroup (since that fits the newsgroup's charter). I haven't paid attention to netnews in several years, so my perspective may well be biased. And I haven't actually paid attention to the issues involved in running a news site for most of the last couple of decades. But my recollection is that *bidirectional* gateways (news <=3D> mail) are rather difficult to "get right" and the consequences of misconfiguration tend toward "cascade failure." It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional gateway were set up (mail =3D> news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list. In that scenario, it would not be possible to "post" directly the newsgroup -- and I believe that would be appropriate. > ... > I am happy to help if necessary but somebody like the -announce mailing > list moderator is probably more appropriate. I have never done any > mail-to-news stuff but I could learn. >=20 > - I mailed jkh@ on 30-Nov and got no response. > - I mailed freebsd-www@ on 01-Dec and got no response. > .... Thank you for your efforts so far. Peace, david (postmaster@freebsd.org hat lying about nearby) --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksZCOoACgkQmprOCmdXAD3eaACgiQHExw8NhsxznwDoIvJdOVxY vQQAnR8JvwAZAFIH2tFv66c+m2phZU5O =K5vH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR--
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