From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 13:44:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA15878 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:44:28 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA15869 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:44:24 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA19544; Mon, 24 Apr 95 14:37:57 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504242037.AA19544@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 14:37:57 MDT Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504232330.QAA28279@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 23, 95 04:30:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.