On 20.02.2025 23:31 Uhr Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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?
IIRC Mailman supports that.
Sendmail supports that too by using aliases piping the mail to rpost.
PS: qmail is dead, I don't recommend running that nowadays.
It also depends on whether the newsgroup is moderated or not. If
moderated, the post needs the Approved-header added before posting it.
Moderated groups cause news servers to send the post to the moderation
address, which is the mailing list address in this case.
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.
The ISC archives that on their FTP server:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/
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Marco
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