|
 | | Group monitoring
|
| My apologies if I'm missing something, or if this has already been addressed, but I was wondering if there is anyway to get notification of activity in a newsgroup here? Short of subscribing to it in e-mail of course. It's just that it seems to me (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|  
mail
(score: 0.171)
|
|
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.170)
|
|
| | Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Sat 28 Nov 1998)
|
| (...) za is South Africa, not Zaire. I think Richard Harris lives in South Africa. But to the question, that's me subscribed to that group. I subscribed to all 1 zillion of the loc.* groups via e-mail because I was tired of watching the /traffic/ (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.170)
|
|
| | Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Sat 28 Nov 1998)
|
| Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering if anyone else besides me reads these? And, if so, is there a way to mark a change in the numbers? More fundamentally, are these high value add to anyone other than Todd? (...) <snip> (...) Do we have anyone (...) (26 years ago, 28-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.170)
|
|
| | Re: Problem with Web LUGNET
|
| (...) don't (...) I noticed this too. 1. All of the "hot text" which makes up paragraph 2 of the local newsgroups, group page. 2. Netscape 4.07 3. win '98 4. noticed it a couple of days ago, origninaly worked as intended (click on country and drop (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.168)
|
|
| | http server fell down
|
| Apache (the HTTP server on lugnet.com) fell down a few hours ago at midnight. Apparently a cron job is stuck doing a 'ps' and the reaper hasn't killed it because it's gobbling up CPU cycles. This may or may not be related, but it's a clue. Not sure (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.167)
|
|
| | Re: Problem with Web LUGNET
|
| (...) I am quite sure it does work. The base URL should be stripped to the last separator ("/"), and the relative URL's in the document should be appended to the stripped version of the base URL. Your example should be processed as <A Href="(URL) (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.167)
|
|
| | Re: lugnettiquete question
|
| (...) I usually like to snip as much as possible, as opposed to as little as necessary. I'd say: 1. Always always always snip sigs and garbage added by third-party free e-mail sites. ("Get your free @foofoo.com e-mail here!") 2. Except in truly rare (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.167)
|
|
| | Re: Mindstorms (more than just robotics?)
|
| (...) <snip> Todd, go check out the threading (as seen by nntp) on the referenced message... I think replies to posts that are made by people getting posts via mail are not being threaded properly. This post should be a reply to mine. (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.167)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) What if messages coming in from alternate e-mail gateways (addresses other than lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com -- i.e. mailing lists) had their headers modified slightly before posting, so that the 'From' line was set to the address of the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) I think that might be ok. Because the person sending the message to the e-mail list might not necessarily even care about whether LUGnet accepted the message. Just like if a list-recipient's mailbox were full or otherwise not accepting mail -- (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) But you can't just go trading people's e-mail addresses without their permission. :-( (...) I've got it solved on my end, but I don't know how traditional mailing list servers are set up. Surely this has come up at least a zillion times before (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) I have received 3 lugnet.trains mail echo posts since you turned it on for me. Since the instructions were rather vague, I presume it's currently a human (you :-) ) processing the requests... Seems to be working fine. Can you turn off "trains" (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) Ok, I think there's only one hitch here with this -- My mail->news converter code bounces messages back to their author when it can't post an article -- except if the message came through a non- lugnet.groupname@lugnet.com gateway (i.e., a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) Hmm, so if there were a checkbox saying "give my e-mail address to lego- related mailing list servers so that my messages posted here can be allowed to show up there as well," would that suffice? Say, do mailing list servers allow people to be (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) That's correct. In fact, it's running now, and I'm posting this message via e-mail. The 'X-Nntp-Gateway' header of this message should say X-Nntp-Gateway: lugnet.admin.general@lugnet.com (...) Yes, that's 100% possible. And probably pretty (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) Okie dokie, here's my solution. Let's take your message (which I'm replying to) as an example. Instead of gatewaying your message out as: Subject: Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail From: mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
|
| | Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
| (...) That's the way it works, yes. Say there is some discussion group (newsgroup) called lugnet.foo. Then all messages arriving into lugnet.foo are echoed out to an e-mail distribution list (person-by-person, group-by-group voluntary (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
| |
|
mail
(score: 0.166)
|
