Mailman usage for Usenet gatewaying
Looking for examples of Mailman usage for Usenet gatewaying particularly for moderated newsgroups. I can see the obvious example of comp.lang.python, but maybe there are others ?
I am evaluating Mailman... currently mirroring articles on a local test newsgroup. Thus far, it proves impressive.
I have used Russ Allbery's robust News::Gateway toolkit, http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/gateway/ along with ezmlm and Majordomo.
Mailman seems to tie a lot of things together, eg. integrated web interface, archiving. It's also user-friendly. On the downside, there does not seem to be much scope for header manipulation at present, eg. headers like Path/XRef/NNTP- are mailed.
-- Darren
"DWR" == Darren Wyn Rees <darren@a470.com> writes:
DWR> Looking for examples of Mailman usage for Usenet gatewaying
DWR> particularly for moderated newsgroups. I can see the
DWR> obvious example of comp.lang.python, but maybe there are
DWR> others ?Actually, it's comp.lang.python.announce; c.l.py isn't moderated. Support for this is unofficial in MM2.0, but it is official in MM2.1. Note though that I haven't converted c.l.py.a to MM2.1 yet. I believe gnu.org also runs some mailing lists gated to moderated news groups.
DWR> Mailman seems to tie a lot of things together, eg. integrated
DWR> web interface, archiving. It's also user-friendly. On the
DWR> downside, there does not seem to be much scope for header
DWR> manipulation at present, eg. headers like Path/XRef/NNTP- are
DWR> mailed.Would be easy to add stripping of any headers, but is there a particular reason why they need to be stripped?
-Barry
A late reply...
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:14:01AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
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Thanks.
DWR> Mailman seems to tie a lot of things together, eg. integrated DWR> web interface, archiving. It's also user-friendly. On the DWR> downside, there does not seem to be much scope for header DWR> manipulation at present, eg. headers like Path/XRef/NNTP- are DWR> mailed.Would be easy to add stripping of any headers, but is there a particular reason why they need to be stripped?
Mailing/posting superfluous header material does not make sense nor add value.
-- Darren
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