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Re: mailing.*

From Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups news.groups.questions
Subject Re: mailing.*
Date 2025-02-20 17:39 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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 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

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kind regards
Marco

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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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