Colin J. Williams wrote:
It seems that UseNet newsgroups can be either moderated or unmoderated.
...
The majority of newsgroups are unmoderated. Concern has been expressed
that moderation is a form of censorship.
It's also way too much work for the moderators. :-)
As far as I can see there is no mechanism to restrict postings to
members. The same would appear to be true for gmane.
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I don't know anything about how a newsgroup copies or mirrors a
mailing list. Does a post to either of them turn up in both places?
For UseNet, I suggest that you consult your local Linux wizard - I don't
know. For gmane, it seems that the post does turn up in both places
I don't have one of those around here. I always considered Daniel
my Linux guru, but he's already said this isn't one of his areas
of expertise.
... I think that if we set up a newsgroup, we definitely *do* want
to restrict posting permissions to list members only, just as is the
case with the Authors list at the moment.
You already have a mechanism to restrict list postings to members. For
gmane, there is no mechanism to prevent spurious postings going to the
newsgroup but your existing mechanism would presumably prevent spurious
postings going to the mailing list.
Assuming that's the way it works, that sounds like it would do
what I want, which is to keep non-members' posts off the mailing
list.
I'll leave it to the others on this list to decide whether we set
up a newsgroup or not. I have no interest in a newsgroup, but I
don't have any major objections either. I appreciate that people
find different ways of working convenient; as long as
arrangements don't interfere with my preferred way, I'm cool with
having lots of diversity.
Cheers, Jean
