Messages in this thread | | | From | 5ar9ro$ (John Henders) | Subject | Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction [OFFTOPIC] | Date | 25 May 1997 22:56:38 GMT |
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In <199705252144.XAA28672@IAEhv.nl> Perry.Rovers@IAEhv.nl (Perry Rovers) writes:
>I don't understand why you folks don't take the bofh.* approach. Recreate >linux.* with a decent moderator address and special requirements. Run some >bots on it and feed it only to clued in people. Newbies can still read the >mailinglist and people who prefer the news-approacht can use that. Since >lots of people on bofh.* are intersted in linux as well and/or run >newsservers it shouldn't be too hard to get decent propagation and create >a relevant bot.
If this were to be done, it would probably be wise to use a new hierarchy name other than linux.*. The reason being that there are thousands of news machines out there with linux.* already on them from the old gatewaying, and this would probably make leak prevention much more difficult, especially on incoming news. Yes, you can use !linux.* in hosts.nntp on unsound incoming feeds but then you also have to compile INN with don't remember junk turned on and not be keeping junk otherwise if a legitimate article comes in from an unsound site then you won't accept it when in comes in from a legitimate site.
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