Subject:
|
Re: lugnet.* discussion groups by mail
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:45:07 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
mattdm@%antispam%mattdm.org
|
Viewed:
|
1248 times
|
| |
|
|
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> Say, do mailing list servers allow people to be write-only or read-only?
> That is, can they be set so that someone is allowed to submit messages but
> isn't flooded with the normal traffic from the list? I read last night that
> at least one listserver allowed this; maybe they all do.
Majordomo can be set up this way. By definition, any decent list server must
be as good as Majordomo.
Huh. You're proposing that people who want to read/post on LUGnet but not
via e-mail would be set up as able to post, but not actually be on the
distribution list? That'd be a Very Interesting list configuration. I'm
fairly sure it'd work though.
> server here were allowed to send out messages to a given mailing list. And
> sending out copies of people's posts without their permission fits well
> within the Terms of Use, which allow LUGNET to republish submitted content
> in any medium. (So in effect, they have already given their permission to
> do so.)
The mailing list users probably haven't explicitly given such permission. At
least I don't think so -- I didn't actually read the fine print. :)
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | 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)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | 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)
|
20 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
