On Jun 6, 9:36 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:03:09 -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > > A horrible thing has happened recently. > > > Messages from usenet seem to be appearing here. > > > I remember that messages posted to the list were reflected to the > > newsgroup perl.beginners, but newsgroup posts to perl.beginners didn't > > seem to show up here. Now they do :_( > > > I hope this is just a configuration mistake--not a change in policy. We > > definitely don't need usenet participants participating here. We have a > > pretty nice list. People are good to one another. Some of the junk that > > goes on on usenet doesn't need to happen here. > > > People who want usenet should subscribe to usenet newsgroups. I > > shouldn't have to see usenet happen on a mailing list I like. Whoever is > > in charge, I implore you to change the configuration of the maillist so > > that these usenet message don't come here any more. > > Would you be more specific about how you have observed this and what you > mean by Usenet? > > I have been using a newsreader to read and post to this group ever since > it was created, because like all the mailing lists hosted on perl.org, it > is bidirectionally gatewayed with the NNTP server at news.perl.org. But > that server does not, AFAICT, exchange articles with the global network > known as Usenet. I just added news.perl.org to my pan server list. > > A few years ago, Google started picking up the perl.org mailing > lists/newsgroups in Google Groups under the perl.* hierarchy. I imagine > at that time it became possible to post to them from Google Groups as > well, although I've never tried and have no evidence of it. > > I don't see anything 'recent' there. > > -- > Peter Scotthttp://www.perlmedic.com/http://www.perldebugged.com/
Hi, I use the Google Groups to read the postings and have posted a few times in the past. When you post, a little warning banner at the top the page says: "The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet." Am I banished forever? Ken Slater -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
