"SS" == Stephan Spencer sms@netconcepts.com writes:
SS> We're using Mailman to gateway a Usenet newsgroup and email
SS> list. I'm curious, is that "severe breakage" in the archives
SS> that Barry Warsaw mentioned in his Apr 2 post fixed yet?
Yes, as Ben Gertzfield mentioned in a separate article, this was fixed in 1.0b11. What wasn't fixed is any /existing/ archives. You'd have to go back into the raw text file and insert the Unix From headers (e.g. "From ") in the appropriate places, and then regenerate the archives (with bin/arch).
SS> What Usenet newsgroups out there are being successfully
SS> moderated using Mailman? misc.industry.printing is the only
SS> one that I know of.
comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce are now both being gated from Mailman lists (respectively, python-list@python.org and python-announce-list@python.org).
The announce list is interesting because the newsgroup c.l.py.a is moderated so you don't want messages posted to python-announce-list@python.org to go to the mailing list members or actually be gated to the n.g.
The trick I came up with is to set the python-announce-list alias to send directly to the n.g. moderators and /not/ to Mailman's post-wrapper. When the n.g. moderator approves of the message, they'll forward it on to the n.g. When Mailman sees the message show up on the n.g. it forwards it on to the list members pre-approved and without going through the aliases file again. So far, I /think/ this is working pretty well.
-Barry