On 06/06/2007 08:36 AM, 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?
Google Groups posts to perl.beginners are showing up in the mailing list
beginners[at]perl.org.
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.
Are you sure that's not nntp.perl.org? Thunderbird says it can't connect
to news.perl.org, and nntp.perl.org does not seem to allow posting.
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.
For whatever reasons, some usenet servers carry perl.beginners.
Traditionally, posts to the perl.beginners newsgroup didn't appear in
the mailing list. Now they do, and all such posts I've found have
originated from Google.
This seems to have started around the 23rd of May.
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