on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:38:48AM -0300, Anthony Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Veering [further] off-topic, I notice that at least one other person > has posted a genuine question to the News gateway in the last few days > (the person was admirably helped by someone else reading and posting > to the gateway). I guess it is non-obvious to some people grazing > Usenet that the gateway is meant to be RO. I am wondering if a post > to the gateway could be automated to go out every week or two just to > clarify this to the Usenet denizens (who may have legitimate questions > for the list)? > > It could say something like: > > This is intended to be a Read-Only gateway to Usenet News of the > debian-user mailing-list. People who wish to post to this list should > send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject > of "subscribe", and then post to the list using their mail client. Newsgroup descriptions are the proper repository for this information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I managed to love simultaneously -- and this is not easy -- women and justice. -- Albert Camus, _The Fall_
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