Re: Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

Marc G Fournier <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> If Marc was happy with them being turned into real Big Eight groups and
>> the technical issues of the gatewaying were worked out with Marco or
>> someone else

> what 'techincal issues of the gatewaying'?

There are a couple of things that would be ideal to fix. One is that
currently the gateway isn't rewriting message IDs, which means that if
anyone else gates the same mailing lists into some other group, the posts
will conflict and posts will randomly disappear. This isn't a huge issue,
but it would be nice to fix it, since this is a common problem.

The other one is that right now the newsgroup and the mailing list get
different traffic since posts are only gated to the mailing list if the
person is already a member. This can cause confusion (like only half of a
thread being seen on the mailing list). The ideal way to fix this is to
make the newsgroup moderated (which also simplifies the whole process
since then you don't need any news to mail gateway). That way, things can
be set up so that only the messages that make it to the list make it to
the newsgroup.

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Russ Allbery (rra(at)stanford(dot)edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>