Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:12:47 +0200: > "Fortunatly, linux.* *IS* a bidirectional gateway, unless your news > server is misconfigured.". > > I'm confused. Is the gateway bidirectional and is almost everyone's news > server misconfigured? Is everyone doing something wrong? Or is it just me?
With our current news software, I don't recall having done any tests recently with the various news groups that end up mailing stuff to a moderator. I think sci.astro.research does this - and it works for me. I don't recall whether I have ever posted to sci.astro.fits, but no-one has ever complained about it not working there. I have a feeling alt.humor.best-of-usenet is meant to mail to a moderator if you post to that group, but I just mail the moderator address manually. Same with the internet oracle - I can't think of any decent queries to ask it right now, so I'm afraid I can't test it :) I know that if a group asks the client to followup to another group (rec.humor.oracle -> rec.humor.oracle.d and AHBOU to AHBOUD, etc), my client (slrn) obeys that request properly. So it seems perhaps this whole gateway news<-->mail thing is perhaps a hit-and-miss affair. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
