[Mailman-Developers] Usenet gateway posting issue

[Barry Warsaw]

On Nov 04, 2015, at 01:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Then it occurred to me that past behavior, in our case for example where
>python-list gates to/from comp.lang.python and  python-announce-list
>gates to/from comp.lang.python.announce that one could post by email to
>only say python-list with a 'Newsgroups:
>comp.lang.python,comp.lang.python.announce' header, the post would be
>gated to the news server for both groups, and the next time the news
>server is polled the post would come back for both lists and be posted
>to python-announce-list (python-list would be bypassed because of
>X-BeenThere:).
>
>Note: that this scenario may or may not have 'Message-ID:' issues, but
>assuming it works, my question is is this scenario a feature that people
>actually use that I would break by only putting comp.lang.python in the
>Newsgroups: header of posts gated from python-list or is it potentially
>a bug that should be fixed.
>
>Does anyone have an opinion on this?

I'm not aware of anybody using this, but I agree with your original decision.
I don't think users should count on this accidental workflow.

Cheers,
-Barry