[leafnode-list] Re: mail2news
Joerg Dietrich
joerg at dietrich.net
Wed Apr 14 12:41:57 CEST 2004
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:22:30AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Question: how does mail2news address the case that a "cross-posting"
> shows up on two of the mailing lists that it converts? Reusing the
It will cross-post to the news groups. This might cause problems
when the gateqay is set up as a two way gate in which follow-up
articles are sent to the mailing list address as the moderator
address. In this case only one mailing list (the first in the
Newsgroups: header) will the receive the follow-up.
> Message-ID is a problem for such cases. I once read a document on the
> conditions that allow to transform the Message-ID, References,
> In-Reply-To:, ... in a reproducible and reversible way in this case
> (presumably by adding the group name and the host name); I don't quite
> recall what it was, it may have been written by Bettina Fink; in any
> case, the discussion had taken place on
> news:de.comm.software.newsserver.
thanks, I shall look for it.
-- Jo:rg
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