Re: bincancels in linux.kernel

[Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>]

>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.xs4all.nl> writes:

 Erik> Andrew,
 Erik> You're bincancelling messages in linux.kernel,

am I? hmm, that isn't intentional; looks like someone started feeding
me linux.* traffic without telling me. I've suspended bincancels there
for now, until I can sort that out.

 Erik> a newsgroup fed by a mail2news gateway.

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.

 Erik> The gated list is linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Cc), a list to
 Erik> which sometimes binary patches are posted.  IMHO binaries are
 Erik> acceptable in linux.kernel.

well, I would have to disagree (even if you don't think that binaries
coming via the mailing list would be a problem, there is still the
question of binaries posted via news - and the recent levels of abuse
in comp.binaries.*.d, rec.*, vmsnet.* etc. suggests that there are
plenty of people who are happy to post binaries anywhere they can
regardless of the real purpose of a group)

[copied to Marco in case he wishes to clarify matters]

-- 
Andrew.