jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (07/25/89)
Followups are directed to gnu.config, since this is really about how the gnu mail-to-newsgroups gateway works (or could work). In article <KARL.89Jul23183041@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >> There is also still some argument going on about continuing the >> gateway [for the gnu.* groups], because of the _large_ number of >> misguided, flammable, and generally distracting postings which >> manage to creep into all corners of gnu.*. In article <5617@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes: >If that's the case, why aren't the gnu.* groups moderated groups? >Moderate 'em, set up an automatic mechanism so that mailing list >messages get sent out as approved articles, and forward Usenet >postings to the appropriate mailbox at MIT. They can filter 'em >as they wish... Good idea. And if all recipients of gnu groups add the line gnu %s@<whatever-machine>.ohio-state.edu to their mailpaths file, the existing gateway site at Ohio State can take care of everything with little change (no need for aliases at backbone sites). For 2.11 news, it must be patched to at least patchlevel 1 for this to work. We need to keep it clear that the alternate newsgroup heirarchies are independent, that discussion and decision-making in the news.* groups simply doesn't apply. This means it is misguided to propose an alt group in news.groups, or to debate whether the gnu.* groups are in the correct spirit of Usenet in news.admin. For this reason I'm taking this discussion to gnu.config. To this end, there should be a place for discussing the social and political issues that surround the GNU project, because, after all, these issues are the very reason FSF exists in the first place. Given this, it seems strange to argue that these discussions are only noise. If the gnu.* groups were moderated and there were also an unmoderated gnu.politics, it would not be possible to crosspost and those uninterested in the social issues discussion could unsubscribe. -- -- Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (07/26/89)
In article <2334@itivax.iti.org> scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) writes:
Whatever happened to gnu.whatever, which would supposedly be the
place for all the philosophical disucssions of gnu politics?
I just issued a newgroup for gnu.misc.discuss.