Re: google groups and Usenet

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  8-Sep-2005, Colin Ingram wrote:
>
> | I don't want to create a new mailing list. (which I think is what this 
> | procedure would do.) Nor do I think everyone on the list wants to send 
> | their messages to two different mailing lists just for my benefit.
> | 
> | what I am thinking of is more along the lines of debian-user is set up 
> | so that it is mirror as linux.debian.user and I can read it from google 
> | groups without having the thousands of users sign up for google groups
>
> Do messages that are posted to the list from the google groups
> interface also show up on the mailing list (i.e., you have a list ->
> news gateway and a news -> list gateway)?  I think you would want
> both.  The only problem I have with setting up a gateway like this is
> that we currently require subscription to post.  How would that work
> with a news -> list gateway?
>  

The reverse gateway should be no problem. The way to handle the 
subscription issue with a usenet group is to have a moderation of the 
group before accepting the posting. Posting would be held at the gateway 
till they are moderated. I suspect this might be a lot of work if there 
are a large number of junk postings, and I'm not sure there is automatic 
software to deal with the spam.

Frankly, I see the technical issue as minor next to the issue of 
moderation. So Colin if you want it, you're the moderator....

Regards
David


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