Re: newsgroup of all mailing lists ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Matti Aarnio <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
>   It is not trivial.
> 
>   We ( [e-mail] ) don't recommend making bidirectional
>   gateways -- one mistake there, and the system causes duplication of
>   messages at the list it is linked with.   When we detect that mistake,
>   the usual court-martial is swift, and feed from VGER to the GW is
>   removed instantly.
> 
>   I think these loop problems were one of the reasons why one of us
>   (DaveM) strongly opposes list<->news gateways.  I am somewhat less
>   in opposition, and my thinking is that the only way we can have
>   reliable (hah!) list<->news gw is by running it centralized at VGER.
>   Modern VGER has muscle for it, but don't expect it to happen any
>   time soon.
> 

I actually had such a centralized gateway ran at one time.  It's still
running locally at Transmeta.

The only sane way to do this is in a centralized fashion, distributed
outbound via the standard news mechanisms.

	-hpa
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