Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, David Wolfskill wrote: It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional gateway were set up (mail => news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list. In case it is needed, I do run a news server, and would be most willing to put a uni-directional posting filter onto that mailing list, so that mail gets there ... just let me know if this is what is decided / needed ... Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra...@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappySkype: hub.orgICQ:7615664MSN:scra...@hub.org ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:25:11AM +1100, John Marshall wrote: > ... > Thank you for your responses. Jordan subsequently replied to my email > and CC'd the FreeBSD Core Team. Core has nominated philip@ to succeed > jhk@ as moderator of the .announce newsgroup. > > Philip intends to funnel messages from -announce@ into the .announce > newsgroup. I think that liaison between philip@ and postmaster@ on the > mechanics of this process would be good. > > Thank you for helping (re)establish an official presence for FreeBSD on > USENET. Glad to help; that's why I'm here. I'm pretty sure Philip knows how to reach postmas...@. :-} Thanks again for taking the initiative to address the matter. Peace, david (postmas...@freebsd.org hat lying about somewhere near here) -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. pgpL8ObRY2gH4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, 14:46 +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > David Wolfskill writes: > > It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional > > gateway were set up (mail => news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup > > were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list. > > ...and that would be sufficient for -announce. Gentlemen, Thank you for your responses. Jordan subsequently replied to my email and CC'd the FreeBSD Core Team. Core has nominated philip@ to succeed jhk@ as moderator of the .announce newsgroup. Philip intends to funnel messages from -announce@ into the .announce newsgroup. I think that liaison between philip@ and postmaster@ on the mechanics of this process would be good. Thank you for helping (re)establish an official presence for FreeBSD on USENET. -- John Marshall pgpSRsypnWFYB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup
David Wolfskill writes: > But my recollection is that *bidirectional* gateways (news <=> mail) are > rather difficult to "get right" and the consequences of misconfiguration > tend toward "cascade failure." They're not trivial to get right "from first principles", but they're very common, and I'm sure someone who's done it before can lend a hand. > It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional > gateway were set up (mail => news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup > were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list. ...and that would be sufficient for -announce. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Future of comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Newsgroup
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:41:56PM +1100, John Marshall wrote: > ... > I suggest that the FreeBSD Project: > 1. Respond to the MVI proposing a new moderator for the newsgroup; > 2. Arrange for the freebsd-announce mailing list to be gated to > the newsgroup (since that fits the newsgroup's charter). I haven't paid attention to netnews in several years, so my perspective may well be biased. And I haven't actually paid attention to the issues involved in running a news site for most of the last couple of decades. But my recollection is that *bidirectional* gateways (news <=> mail) are rather difficult to "get right" and the consequences of misconfiguration tend toward "cascade failure." It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional gateway were set up (mail => news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list. In that scenario, it would not be possible to "post" directly the newsgroup -- and I believe that would be appropriate. > ... > I am happy to help if necessary but somebody like the -announce mailing > list moderator is probably more appropriate. I have never done any > mail-to-news stuff but I could learn. > > - I mailed jkh@ on 30-Nov and got no response. > - I mailed freebsd-www@ on 01-Dec and got no response. > Thank you for your efforts so far. Peace, david (postmas...@freebsd.org hat lying about nearby) -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. pgpbYPUmAeb8U.pgp Description: PGP signature
