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Re: Mailing list gateways
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:46:20 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
> sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:

[...]

> Mailing list subscriptions per se can be automagically moved if someone can
> come up with an address list.

The address list is available to anybody (execept for a few
anonymous subscriptions).

> What can't be automagically done is giving everyone the
> automatic ability to post.  Anyone who is new to the
> lugnet.* newsgroups and who doesn't want to lurk-only will
> still have to do the news-posting setup:

I had forgotten about that.

[...]

> > Can/should we transfer the L-CAD archives to the newsgroups?
> 
> Can on this end, yes.  Someone would just need to come up
> with all the messages in their original SMTP format (all
> the headers preserved)

I think I can manage that. A few messages may have been lost,
but I am pretty sure I have most of the L-CAD messages
archived all the way back to "day one".

> and there would need to be explicit permission from the
> mailing-list owner to republish, index, etc. all of the
> messages.

This can probably be managed if we can agree to move the list.

> Note: any binary or MIME postings would be lost.

We may loose a bit of information on this.


Play well,

Jacob

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  Re: Mailing list gateways
 
(...) Mailing list subscriptions per se can be automagically moved if someone can come up with an address list. It will be best to have the address list in place first before the new newsgroup is created, so that the Terms of Use can be mailed out (...) (28 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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