Mail<->News Gateways

[Felix E. Klee]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:03:12 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote:
> You have described the reasons I did something else. I wrote my own 
> mailtonews script, which among other things merges In-Reply-To and 
> References. 

INN's mailpost does this as well, fortunately.

> Then I posted by rnews, preserving the message-ID, so that 
> duplication would only result in a quiet reject. 

Just checked: mailpost uses a program called inews for that purpose.
Message IDs are preserved (otherwise, we wouldn't use that solution).

> I set the group moderated with the group submission address as the
> moderator address.

We tried that as well.  However, this way, cross-posts to NGs won't be
translated into cross-posts to MLs.

> My internal lists are majordomo, and I gateway about 40 other lists 
> which are various things. Post get to the list, so I presume that poster 
> information passes through and articles get approved to closed lists.

I don't understand what you mean by "I presume that poster information
passes through".  However, it sounds like you implemented that setup for
your personal use.  In this case, I assume, you're subscribed to the
relevant lists.  Anyways, AFAIK, majordomo can be tricked into approving
a message to a closed list by adding an "Approved:" header to the
message (I guess this can be turned off, though).

Felix