On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, David Wolfskill wrote:
It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional
gateway were set up (mail => news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup
were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list.
In case it is needed, I do run a news server, and wo
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:25:11AM +1100, John Marshall wrote:
> ...
> Thank you for your responses. Jordan subsequently replied to my email
> and CC'd the FreeBSD Core Team. Core has nominated philip@ to succeed
> jhk@ as moderator of the .announce newsgroup.
>
> Philip intends to funnel messag
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, 14:46 +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> David Wolfskill writes:
> > It would, however, make sense from my perspective if a unidirectional
> > gateway were set up (mail => news -- note direction!), and the newsgroup
> > were to become merely a reflector of the mailing list.
David Wolfskill writes:
> But my recollection is that *bidirectional* gateways (news <=> mail) are
> rather difficult to "get right" and the consequences of misconfiguration
> tend toward "cascade failure."
They're not trivial to get right "from first principles", but they're
very common, and I'm
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:41:56PM +1100, John Marshall wrote:
> ...
> I suggest that the FreeBSD Project:
> 1. Respond to the MVI proposing a new moderator for the newsgroup;
> 2. Arrange for the freebsd-announce mailing list to be gated to
> the newsgroup (since that fits the newsgroup's
Gentlemen,
Sorry if this topic is inappropriate for this mailing list - please
point me in the right direction if so, or pass this on to the
appropriate hat.
Readers of the FreeBSD web site and handbook are directed to the the
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce newsgroup. This newsgroup, created in
