From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 11:42:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA06722 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 11:42:40 -0700 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA06714 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 11:42:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199505311842.LAA06714@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by crh.cl.msu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA11723; Wed, 31 May 1995 14:42:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 14:42:35 -0400 From: Charles Henrich To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mailing lists X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #10 (NOV) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Now, the Usenet groups would be private - they would be purely for intersite transit, to assure redundancy. You can get rid of all the news<->mail gateway assumptions by doing this (encapsulate the mail messages, perhaps even uuencode, to deter folks from trying to "use" the groups). This is a Dont do something assinign like that, as I said in another message I already one-way gateway into newsgroups here at MSU, and its entirely to useful. I can actually read and track ALL of the damn lists with no problem. Users still are forced to email to the list to get posts in, so we cut way down on any garbage noise. A boiler plate is stuck on the end of each message explaining that a post here wont do any good. I've also named the groups lists.freebsd.* so its very apparent whats what. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/