Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:34:07 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <199504242334.AAA06570@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199504241931.MAA14200@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Apr 24, 95 12:31:27 pm
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In reply to Jeffrey Hsu who said > > but there is a point in expanding the NEWS coverage.. > rememeber I was suggesting MAIL -> News and not visa-versa. > > Sorry, I wasn't explicit in my last mail message. We both agree on > expanding the news coverage. I want to go further and see the news > coverage subsume the mailing lists, but for the moment, I'd be > happy just to see the mail -> news gateway. Of course, I'd be happier > to see the news -> mail gateway too. Then I can unsubscribe to the mailing > lists and just read news. (Anyone who likes mail can still get their > quota of mail by staying on the mailing lists. Nothing in this proposal > changes the status quo for them.) > Well, if we setup the Follow-up and reply-to fields properly and you use a decent newsreader you should be able to just read the newsgroup and still be able to reply to the gated mail as if it was from a mail reader. Umm, I've only had two direct complaints and that was against a full gateway so I'd say the concensus is to actually do this. All we need now is a volunteer to do it. Learning about news gateways isn't currently high on my list of tasks :-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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