[43934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Oct 28 17:26:01 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 28 Oct 2001 14:25:25 -0800
In-Reply-To: ehall@ehsco.com's message of "28 Oct 2001 13:49:22 -0800"
Message-ID: <g3vggze71m.fsf@as.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> You and others here probably already know this trick, but you might be able
> to get automatic echoes if you use the list address as the moderator of the
> newsgroup, such that replies are forwarded to the moderator address rather
> than being posted. Might also need to massage the outbound message so that it
> strips off unwanted NNTP headers.
A bidirectional mail/news gateway is lots harder than what I use for NANOG.
In addition to the above concerns, there's a need for the "mail side" to keep
its own message-id history for round-the-horn duplicate suppression. This is
how the namedroppers@ops.ietf.org <=> comp.protocols.dns.std gateway works,
for example. (The news -> mail direction is moderated, first by ISC and then
by Randy as are all postings to namedroppers.)
However, for my private NANOG newsgroup I prefer that followups just silently
die. Any local user of my nnrp server who can't figure out that they need to
use e-mail to post to NANOG, probably ought not be posting to NANOG :-).
