OT: mail-news gateway question

[Grant Edwards]

In article <ab41gs$btu$1 at panix3.panix.com>, Aahz wrote:

>>How does the python news/mail gateway work?  Somebody recently told me
>>that such gateways work by making the group moderated and having the
>>"moderator" e-mail address set to the mailing list.  Is this true?
> 
> Nope.  News->Mail consists of an NNTP client that collects posts from
> comp.lang.python and forwards them (probably via SMTP) to python-list.
> Conversely, Mail->News consists of an e-mail client (probably POP3, but
> might be IMAP) that polls a mailbox and then injects news either directly
> to the news server (such as INN) or by using an NNTP client.

Thanks.  That was pretty much my understanding.

>>Looking at the headers in c.l.p, I don't see any "approved:" headers,
>>and the NNTP-posting host seems to vary from posting to posting.
> 
> Note that c.l.py is a bidirectional gateway; many people post directly
> to the newsgroup.  People who post to python-list should all have the
> same NNTP-Posting-Host.  You can tell gatewayed e-mail by looking for
> the X-Mailman-Version header (or any of several other obvious headers).

I'd noticed those, and since they weren't present on many other
postings, I thought it meant that c.l.p wasn't moderated.

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