Re: Restricting the list

Tim Kehres <kehres@ima.com> Wed, 21 February 1996 07:48 UTC

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From: Tim Kehres <kehres@ima.com>
To: Jim Conklin <conklin@info.cren.net>
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Subject: Re: Restricting the list
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On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Jim Conklin wrote:

>   (Sorry to be slow getting back to this.)
>   There were lots of objections to allowing only subscribers to post to the
> lists, so that restriction will NOT be made.
>   There were a couple of suggestions that we'd be less likely to have
> extraneous postings to the lists if they were not gatewayed to netnews.
> Let me ask how many netnews readers we have for ietf-smtp and ietf-822,
> and, in general, what the reaction would be to removing the gateway to
> netnews for these lists.  It that also represents a problem, we'll just
> leave it the way it is and see what hapens.

If the gateway to USENET is the concern, then it is always possible to 
keep the lists wide open, while at the same time moderating the feed from 
the USENET side.

-- Tim