In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can someone advise me, assuming a "good" newsgroup feed\supplier, > >a: What is the realistic lag between messages in the mailing list > and in "linux.debian.user" news group?
No idea. >b: Do all the messages sent to the mailing list get to the newsgroup? No idea, but see below. >c: Can a person write to the mailing list by posting to the newsgroup? Depends if your news server is configured correctly, the groups should be moderated, and the moderator address should be the correct gateway. The problem however with these linux.* groups is that it appears several people are running mail2news gateways; and not all of them post to linux.*. And due to how Usenet works, if a debian-user post is gatewayed to myprovider.local.debian.user and it somehow still ends up at your provider or their upstream, that message-id is flagged as 'seen'. If the same message later shows up in linux.debian.user it will NOT get posted to that group on newssservers that already have a message with that message-id in another group. >As must be apparent, I am thinking of taking this mailing list via >newsgroups and I just want to see the down side, if any. It might work but my guess is that it is not nearly as reliable. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
