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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 95 14:37:57 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups
Message-ID:  <9504242037.AA19544@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504232330.QAA28279@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 23, 95 04:30:48 pm

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> My suggestion:
> 
> 'questions' is gated to the news group by being sent to an alias
> 'news'
> 
> all 'news' items have the following headder tacked on the FRONT of them
> before being gated to usenet:
> 
> ****************************************************************************
> * This article has been forwarded to USENET from the FreeBSD-questions     *
> * mailing list. It's appearance here on USENET is for informational        *
> * purposes only. Replies to USENET on this topic will NOT be seen          *
> * by the original posters. to reply, send mail to:                         *
> * FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org                                            *
> * send mail to majordome@FreeBSD.org, stating 'help' for more information  *
> ****************************************************************************

How about making "reply to poster" mean FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org, if
you actually go ahead with this?

And then note that they can "reply to poster".

Which would of course cause the message to be echoed by the gateway to
the news group.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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