I wouldn't consider gatewaying nanog into usenet land (even one way) to be the world most constructive exercise...
I do. I read NANOG in a private local newsgroup. It only works one-way -- to post, I have to send mail to nanog@merit.edu and so my address has to be entered on the nanog-post list. KILL files are wonderful. /etc/aliases says: local-mail-net-nanog: |"/news/local/mailpost -d local local.mail.net.nanog" i've put a copy of "mailpost" at http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailpost.txt. it's really a perl script, 324 lines long, written by me back in 1992 or so.
I'd love to see a Usenet version of this group. One of the groups I frequent (the groupstudy cert lists), has the ability to post two way via mail/web/nntp. I really like the NNTP format, keeps a lot of mail off my HD and makes it much easier to follow old threads. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:10 PM Subject: Re: the group
I wouldn't consider gatewaying nanog into usenet land (even one way) to
be
the world most constructive exercise...
I do. I read NANOG in a private local newsgroup. It only works one-way -- to post, I have to send mail to nanog@merit.edu and so my address has to be entered on the nanog-post list. KILL files are wonderful. /etc/aliases says:
local-mail-net-nanog: |"/news/local/mailpost -d local local.mail.net.nanog"
i've put a copy of "mailpost" at http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailpost.txt. it's really a perl script, 324 lines long, written by me back in 1992 or so.
"Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com> wrote
I read NANOG in a private local newsgroup. It only works one-way -- to post, I have to send mail to nanog@merit.edu and so my address has to be entered on the nanog-post list.
You and others here probably already know this trick, but you might be able to get automatic echoes if you use the list address as the moderator of the newsgroup, such that replies are forwarded to the moderator address rather than being posted. Might also need to massage the outbound message so that it strips off unwanted NNTP headers. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
You and others here probably already know this trick, but you might be able to get automatic echoes if you use the list address as the moderator of the newsgroup, such that replies are forwarded to the moderator address rather than being posted. Might also need to massage the outbound message so that it strips off unwanted NNTP headers.
That's what I do, and it works well. I agree with others that it might work a lot less well if I had multiple peered servers. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 johnl@iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
I wouldn't consider gatewaying nanog into usenet land (even one way) to be the world most constructive exercise... I do. I read NANOG in a private local newsgroup.
i think joel meant not gating nanog to the real usenet, and was not commenting on private use of usenet tools. i agree with not gating it to the real usenet. wouldn't want to pollute the usenet. :-) randy
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