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| From | Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | news.groups.questions |
| Subject | Re: mailing.* |
| Date | 2025-02-20 23:31 -0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87seo89gfs.fsf@example.com> (permalink) |
| References | <20250218092536.0113be86@dorfdsl.de> <874j0pjtdm.fsf@example.com> <20250220173913.64f64ad8@ryz.dorfdsl.de> |
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes: > On 19.02.2025 22:29 Uhr Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >> Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes: >> >> > Hello! >> > >> > mailing.* looks like a gateway to certain mailing list. Who >> > maintains that? >> >> Good question. I'd love to understand that (and more) too. > > A gateway is a service that posts messages from a newsgroup to a > mailing list and vice-versa. > Often this is being done with moderated newsgroups. I'd like to understand better how they work. For instance, if I have an NNTP server such as Leafnode and I have a mailing list hosted by qmail, say, what software would I run to gateway these two systems? >> > I can't find control files for certain groups there that are on E-S. >> > E.g. mailing.unix.samba-announce >> >> What's a control file for a certain group? > > TLDR: Control files cause groups to be created or deleted. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_message But where do you find control files for any group here on E-S? For instance, where's the control file for comp.misc, say? I have no idea how things work here.
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mailing.* Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-02-18 09:25 +0100
Re: mailing.* Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-19 22:29 -0300
Re: mailing.* Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-02-20 17:39 +0100
Re: mailing.* Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-20 23:31 -0300
Re: mailing.* Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-02-21 10:18 +0100
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