[plug] New PLUG news server

Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Wed Sep 29 19:05:16 WST 2004


James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> writes:

>In article <3278280.AYzaTbetnI at patrick.wattle.id.au>, Cameron Patrick wrote:
>> One "solution" might be to have the posting script remove the
>> message-id if leafnode rejects it.  That's what the gmane scripts
>> do.

>Should we create a new newsgroup to discuss the news server,
>or take this to plug.test?? Can we cross-post ;-)

>I wonder if Mailman can do any Message-ID filtering. If Mailman were to
>replace the problematic Message-IDs, that would uniformly and
>simultaneously solve the problem for both the mailing list and the
>newsgroups, if I understand your processes correctly.

Yes; that'd solve that problem and remove the potential one of
broken threading if there is a collision of message ID in the
archives.

The original author might be a little miffed especially when you
autorespond with a suitable instructions on how they might configure
their system.
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