Re: bincancels in linux.kernel

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <ylr8czu4hi.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
| Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

| > 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.
| 
| Maybe think of the mailing list as a moderator that's permitted to approve
| binaries and only cancel binaries that were posted directly to the group
| rather than going through the list?  That would seem to avoid any problems
| with deleting legitimate traffic.
| 
| If people start flooding the list with binaries, I'm sure that will be
| dealt with quite promptly, before Usenet even notices.

Agreed. I gateway the list to an internal group just because the news
tools seem to be better than the mail tools for this. The filters in the
m/l should keep out problems.

I have no idea what the news2mail gateway is on the open net, I have
marked it moderated and ship everything back to the list address.


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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.