From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-05-30T01:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby?


"Ben Giddings" <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:40B784F2.7050608@infofiend.com...

> Also, maybe the way the mailing list is set up can be changed.  I
> imagine right now that the way things work is:
>
>    Emails sent to the mailing list are sent out to all members,
>    one of those members is the gateway program, it sends them out
>    to the newsgroup.  The newsgroup looks for new messages and when
>    it finds them, it emails them to the mailing list.
>
> Maybe instead, we can have the mailing list be nothing but something
> that copies messages to the newsgroup, and then have a secondary process
> that takes everything from the newsgroup and sends it out to the mailing
> list members.  That way, instead of having two different lists that have
> to be synchronized, we have only 1 (the newsgroup) that has to be
> emailed out.

So you want to replace the direct mailing functionality by a detour via the
newsgroup.  Isn't that dangerous given that the news gateway seems to have
problems we can't tackle?  And, this might dissatisfy people because mails
won't arrive as timely as they do right now.  If all that could be dealt
with properly the idea doesn't sound too bad to me.  It would at least
eliminate the need for the gateway to check for message ids (or insert
something into message headers) to prevent endless looping.  The question
remains whether the software at hand can be retrofitted to this behavior
with reasonable effort.

Kind regards

    robert