From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sean Rima Subject: Re: linux-newbie newsgroup Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:14:23 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030522073458.01ebe030@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030522073458.01ebe030@celine> (Ray Olszewski's message of "Thu, 22 May 2003 07:38:56 -0700") List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 >>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 - -- Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top posting frowned upon? Normal Email sean AT tcob1 DOT net GPG Key Id 7DA70294 ICQ: 679813 Jabber: tcobone@jabber.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQE+zQVyHMnSWn2nApQRApYIAKCS7+oHP9tYeMzM1CKZ9FN4jt6V1wCgwmiS l+SzLNtQ7yFGzVZYBm++GnY= =poOl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs