Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:12:15 +0100 | From | "Marco d'Itri" <> | Subject | Re: bincancels in linux.kernel |
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On Dec 03, Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I don't personally consider that the fact that a group is gatewayed >from a mailing list to be significant when deciding how to apply Usenet >policies to it. Agreed.
>[copied to Marco in case he wishes to clarify matters] (I'm the linux.* gateway operator.)
I'm not sure if there is a consensus about binaries in linux.* groups which do not match *.binar*. OTOH last year I added linux.* to the default cleanfeed configuration linux.* in the list of groups where binaries are permitted and nobody ever complained. If you want to be sure that the hierarchy is not hijacked by warez kiddies you can just cancel everything not posted from /\.bofh\.it$/.
The real problem with linux.* is that when I started maintaining it I only had the time to write the mail->news part, and never finished the mail->news side, which has to be authenticated to avoid spam. The plan is to have moderated groups where all articles are either directly gated from the mailing list or first checked by my robomoderation software, but I don't know when I'll find the time to implement this.
-- ciao, Marco [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |