John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> [20010521 13:09]: >> My understanding is that linux.debian.user is deprecated in favor of >> muc.lists.debian.user. > ^^^ > >(I've been meaning to look up what this stands for?) > >Yes, well one source for linux* newsgroups being deprecated can be found >through the LDP docs, that's where I last read it a couple of years ago. >Look under a ~'where to get further help with Linux' resource link. > >One thing that I'm not sure still happens is that whomever is running >this mail > news gateway honors, or is stripping (inadvertently perhaps) >'X-No-Archive: yes' from the list postings if the author is placing them >there, as I do. I don't mind Debian or any other ML I'm subscribed to >maintaining a Web archive. However, I mention it only as I get the >feeling (I'll check later in l.d.u. to see definitively) from finding >some of my posts to this list appearing in groups.google.com that the >header is being removed along the way.
If they're using mail2news (from newsgate), that strips all headers it doesn't know about, including all X- headers. It's very annoying behaviour. >BTW, who is doing the gateway'ing? If need be, I'd like to contact them >directly, other than looking at bang paths for a clue to their identity. I believe it's done by Marco d'Itri (the Debian inn maintainer). There was a discussion about it a couple of months ago either here or on debian-devel, so you could search the archives; try looking for a post about linux.* from Christoph Lameter. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
