I sent this to debian-devel, where it was off-topic: | The Debian mailing lists are currenty gated by news.nic.it to | newsgroups in the linux.debian.* hiararchy. | | I have asked Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if he could set up | bidirectional gating, i.e. also from the NGs to the list. | | Marco said he could do that if the list admins agree, but he also | would have to update his software. | | His concept is as follows: The NGs are marked moderated, the moderator | is a bot that approves the postings, sends them to the NG and gates | them to the list. | | Furthermore, posters would need to register in order to prevent spam. | | The concept with the moderator bot would also prevent mail loops. | | Could anyone authorized to speak for the Debian team present their | view? | | You can also mail Marco directly, but I am currently in contact with | him, I would mail him the results.
Adam McKenna objected: | I am personally not a fan of having my e-mail address plastered all over | USENET. I receive a good deal of spam at the address I use to post to this | list -- now I know why. Maybe the person who gates this list to USENET could | do something to obfuscate the e-mail addresses of posters. whereto I replied | At the moment it _is_ spreaded all over the Usenet. The question I | asked was about a bidirectional gating, the unidirectional gating is | already active. Remco Rijnders remarked: | If the idea is to gate everything from a widely spread usenet | hierarchy to the debian lists, then I am not sure if that would be a | wise idea. The number of spam incidents will probably increase. Also, | it makes the "You can spam us if you pay us" rule that exists on the | debian lists no longer enforcable. My reply: | Well, Marco from linux.it said posters would have to register. When | reguistering, they might also have to agree to that provision. Finally David N. Welton pointed me to debian-project: | This has nothing to do with debian development,but is instead related | to the debian project, and therefore belongs on the -project mailing | list. so I repost it here, together with the above summary of the discussion til now. What do you think about a bidirectional gateway? -- "Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." - Governor George W. Bush, 5/20/96
