[plug] Re: mail-list vs news

[Bernd Felsche]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 16:48, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> James Devenish wrote:
> > I was thinking that NNTP would have to go onto the xbox, because of the
> > space limitations on spark and because the server would be unresponsive
> > when spark is delivering mail through Mailman. However, I don't have
> > root access on the xbox so I haven't looked at its resources or
> > proposed any action so far.

> (I don't have root on xbox or spark either.  We have NIS set up, so if
> you can log into spark you should be able to log into xbox too.)  Xbox
> has /home mounted from spark over NFS, and 3.6gb free on /... hmm,
> more than I expected.

> I was kind of assuming that the mail server and NNTP would have to
> live on the same machine.  Is this not the case?

No. They don't have to. The gateway between the two can be as simple
as a single email address on the NNTP server to handle the posting
of mail to news. Set the newsgroup to moderated and the moderation
address to the PLUG list, add the aforementioned email address and
it all sort of works without risking Mailman changes.

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