[plug] New PLUG news server

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Wed Sep 29 16:41:56 WST 2004


In message <20040929083141.GE20665 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 04:31:41PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> James Devenish wrote:
> > I guess this is one area where NNTP gating might be more successful than
> > the current SMTP-based process. I realise that the SMTP process has its
> > own advantages.
> ?? I don't quite follow you.  Both SMTP and NNTP are involved in this:
> when messages arrive (via SMTP) at newspost@, they are uploaded via
> NNTP to the appropriate news group.

I meant "this is one area where NNTP-only processes might be more
successful than the current SMTP+NNTP hybrid processes". However, I
wouldn't know. I was *assuming* that Mailman uses NNTP, but I could be
wrong. Shooting my mouth off.

>   # Some header names require special casing per the RFC.
[...]
>     'Newsgroups'      : 'newsgroups',

Perhaps this is a typo.





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