In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know how "odd" it is, but I have confirmed that it >doesn't used the moderation mechanism. It uses an NNTP client >program that harvests articles and sends them to the mailing >list (discarding articles that originated from the mailing list).
Yes. Systems like this look reliable, but on almost every list I subscribe to one of these gateways get problems and start re-posting (and re-posting etc) articles back to the list, or they start regurgitating weeks-old articles a few times a year. No matter how careful you are, it can go wrong, so it *will* go wrong. Murphy and all that .. >Using the moderated group mechanism is definitly not "how >everybody else does bidirectional gateways too". True. It's how everybody with a bit of common sense and a few years of experience does it. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
