[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a consensus about that? I mean, I've seen many people say that >the newsgroup gateway is unidirectional (from mailinglist to gateway), >and my own experience confirms that. This is not a matter of opinions: the linux.debian.* mail2news gateway *IS* bidirectional, full stop.
>But in another post here, Marco d'Itri (who is the administrator of >linux.* and runs bofh.it according to Pascal Hakim) says > >"If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and >wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup >and NOT to directly reply to the list." Yes. Mail replies will break threading. The gateway is open to everyone with a valid email address, which is something you would expect from users posting to a mailing list. If somebody thinks that munging their address when posting to usenet will keep it secret forever... well, they will quickly have to face reality anyway. The newsgroups are configured as moderated because this makes gating easier and more robust, but posts are not manually moderated and are either posted to the list and newsgroup after a few minutes or rejected for technical reasons. >"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? The number of users succesfully using with success the linux.* gateway suggests that if there is a problem it exists only on a small number of servers. (Actually I monitor my news server for unapproved articles, and they are *very* uncommon nowadays.) -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
