From: Sean Rima <sean@tcob1.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-newbie newsgroup
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:14:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zds.p90.uel2qq4y8.fsf@tcob1.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030522073458.01ebe030@celine> (Ray Olszewski's message of "Thu, 22 May 2003 07:38:56 -0700")
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On 22 May 2003, Ray Olszewski spake:
>At 08:06 AM 5/22/2003 +0000, Sean Rima wrote:
>>On 21.05.2003 08:20:44, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>>
>>RO> From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
>>RO>
>>RO> There's a linux.newbie newsgroup? You learn something new every
>>RO> day. I'm cc'ing the mailing list rather than the newsgroup, since
>>RO> that is how the question reached me.
>>RO>
>>
>>The linux.newbie ng is a private mailing lists here at tcob1.net. I
>>run a BBS and the mailing list get sent to Fidonet and a couple of
>>other similar networks. I must strip that header and maybe a couple of
>>others
>
>Because the message I was responding to came via this unfamiliar-to-me
>newsgroup, rather than directly to the list, I replied to both the
>group and the poster's address. The reply to the poster
>bounced. Because I don't know how this newsgroup works, I don't know
>if he saw it. In stripping that header, you might want also to look at
>how the From: header is being handled ... I have no way of knowing why
>the bounce happened (that is, whether the bad From: address was caused
>by the newsgroup processing, or if the poster just used a bogus
>address).
>
He does, any posting to the list which arrives here goes to the
newsgroups, gated via hamster currently. It is then converted to FTN
technology (http://www.fidonet.ca) and sent to hundreds of BBS systems
around the world.
Sean
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A: Why is top posting frowned upon?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-22 8:06 vsftpd Sean Rima
2003-05-22 14:38 ` linux-newbie newsgroup (was: Re: vsftpd) Ray Olszewski
2003-05-22 17:14 ` Sean Rima [this message]
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