Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:17 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> Subject: Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup Message-ID: <86vdgmua1i.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20091204130443.GC1130@albert.catwhisker.org> (David Wolfskill's message of "Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:04:43 -0800") References: <20091204054155.GV1388@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <20091204130443.GC1130@albert.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> writes: > 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." They're not trivial to get right "from first principles", but they're very common, and I'm sure someone who's done it before can lend a hand. > 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. ...and that would be sufficient for -announce. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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