On 15 Mar 99, at 3:28, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
Okay, what about the following: Let us create one separate list that will be gated to Usenet and keep one closed.
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I hope that I got it right and that everybody gets the picture. :-)
I *think* I followed that! :-) It addresses my concerns but risks fragmenting the list. For example, if someone posted a message from Usenet, it would show up on gpc@gnu.de. If I then replied to that question using that list, I would not know that the poster would never see my message (because he posted from Usenet), unless there was some way of tagging his original message as coming from the Usenet gateway.
For me the main advantage of a newsgroup lies in the possibility just to look into it without the need to subscribe in the first place.
Hmmm...is there any way to gateway to Usenet in such a way that the "From" e-mail addresses are removed (i.e., trim "From: Dave dbryan@bcpl.net" to just "From: Dave")? Alternately, may I post to this list with an invalid address? Either would remove my main objection.
Of course, do read my suggestions with the understanding that I've only been a list member for a week. I have no idea of how dynamic this list is (if this past week has been any indication, about 50% of the message traffic is spam! :-) :-).
-- Dave Bryan