[plug] New PLUG news server

[Bernd Felsche]

Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> writes:

>James Devenish wrote:

>> Most of those are good policies (as discussed on this list previously
>> -- but when does 'linux.local' arise??).

>According to the source:

>        /* SuSE default hostname on some installs is linux.local */
>        || 0 == strcasecmp(f, "linux.local")

>Yay SuSE.

>> Unfortuantely, a significant 
>> number of PLUG subscribers appear to generate dubious Message-IDs (as
>> discussed on this list previously). I guess that might mean it'll be
>> an ongoing problem for us.

>One "solution" might be to have the posting script remove the message-id
>if leafnode rejects it.  That's what the gmane scripts do.

Unfortunately, that breaks the article reference between mailman and
leafnode. 

You could rename the header, then generate one using the offender's
mangled email address. Doesn't fix the cross-reference (and
threading) unless you correct it in mailman first.

Garbage in, garbage out is the best we can do. :-(
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