Re: Automated message to d-u gateway

From: Anthony Rowe (ay986_at_chebucto.ns.ca)
Date: 08/08/03

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    On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:

    > WTF? The gateway is *not at all* read only.

    Fair enough, but occasionally people post in a vacuum, so to speak.
    Here are two (News) message-ID's of articles posted to the debian-user
    gateway as News which never reached the mailing-list.

    Message-ID: <6hKSa.14290$Mc.1058935@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
     -article sent to the gateway only

    Message-ID: <bgi1bk$5u1@imsp212.netvigator.com>
     -article sent to the gateway only

    > Everybody can post after
    > registering their own email address with the authorisation mailing list,
    > as explained in the message sent to unauthorised users.

    Huh? I posted in reply to Colin on the list from a saved News-
    article, without being subscribed to the list. However, I never
    received any message about registering my email address?

    Message-ID: <hAgY.3xz.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     -my gated article sent successfully to the list without my being
    subscribed and editing message headers by hand to preserve threading.

    The point is that some confusion exists some of the time. Some people
    reading Usenet and who have a question suitable for the debian-user
    list think the list is a newsgroup and post accordingly, or have
    difficulties doing news2mail - myself included.

    Most people posting to other gated Debian lists might be expected to
    have more clue about how this works. But this is a gateway to the
    User list and I think it would be best if details about news2mail were
    made as blindingly obvious as possible. Can anything (more) be done
    to clarify how the d-u gateway works for news2mail?

    Tony 

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