Re: [Freeciv] freeciv news group

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Torkild Hovde Lyngstad <torkildl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > If it goes through, what does this mean for the mailing lists?
> 
> Maybe one should consider a mail-2-news-gateway or vice versa?

I would be open to considering that, but a traditional problem of
these is that newsgroups are far more prone to spam, and it can cause
spam to creep into the mailing list.  One thing some have done is a
unidirectional gate -- posts to the mailing list go to the ng, but not 
vice-versa.  I am a bit dubious about this, though, because
conversations get fragmented -- the people on the list never see the
followups that get on the newsgroup.

> 
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> Torkild Hovde Lyngstad <torkildl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>