From: Rick Bradley <rick@...>
Date: 2002-06-07T11:24:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Cancel

* Dave Thomas (Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com) [020606 19:26]:
> > Did anybody come up with a means to lock the list down to
> > subscribers-only posting without alienating the mail<->news gateway?
> > Could the gateway have its own list posting address, while setting
> > "Reply-To:" to be the news poster's address (not that many of them seem
> > to be valid return addresses anyway)?
> 
> It does - the list isn't open because of the gateway.

You're right (I'd misremembered the thread starting at [ruby-talk:39724]).  

So why is it the mailing list allows anyone in the world to post?

Rick
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