Re: Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Mike Nolan wrote:

>> Perhaps in parallel with the Usenet community voting whether they want
>> to receive posts from the mailing lists, we can have the mailing list
>> subscribers vote on whether they want to receive messages from the
>> Usenet or want to have their messages forwarded to the Usenet.  That
>> might be interesting.
>
> If it isn't already in mailman, it would be an interesting option to add
> to mailman's web interface to give subscribers the option to include
> or exclude posts being gatewayed from USENET.

gatewaying means that there is an address subscribed to the lists that
sends all email's to the news server ... a feature like the above would
have to be akin to a "don't send to subscriber X" ...

Also note that any such restrictions would end up affecting gmane and
google as well ...

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