On 12/6/05, Martin J. Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06-Dec-2005 Andy Hassall wrote: > > If this is the case, then it seems that Google Groups should either make > > their version of the group read-only (this would seem to be the most > > sensible option since it's really a mailing list you should subscribe to), > > or fix the apparent propagation problem from postings made on their > > interface back to the source (nntp.perl.org). > > I find it rather disturbing I can be posting to the dbi-user list and someone > can answer on google groups and I don't see it. If google intend it to work > this way I'm amazed and rather worried as I didn't see anything on google > groups that made this clear.
As a former usenet admin I can attest that configuing the news server to propoagate the perl.* groups out through nntp.perl.org would be trival. If nntp.perl.org wants to allow unverified content arriving through that channel to get copied out to subsciber-only mailing lists, that's another story, as usenet can be awfully spammy. Google has pretty good junk filters though, so maybe opening that channel would be a good thing, if googlegroups doesn't send any junk through.
