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Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/
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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> Christoph Lameter writes:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> >> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
>
> [quoting reordered because new stuff belongs last]
>
> >>> I will make that petition drive if we cannot agree even on
> >>> this limited less dangerous version than dejanews of making
> >>> the content public.
> >>
> >> Fine, you do what you think is necessary. I will say finally that
> >> dejagnus gets the posting at their site before me or anyone else does,
> >> I even bypass all of the exploders and make vger deliver directly to
> >> their archive machine.
> >>
> >> I will stop running vger and shut it down, if the petition decides
> >> that usenet is necessary. Of course, I will provide the subscription
> >> and configuration files for the lists to whoever wants to run it
> >> instead.
> >
> > Please confirm that you really intend to go against what I think is a
> > big group of linuxers needs. What you are doing is blackmail.
> >
> > I would wish you would assert your copyright to these things as
> > Alan said. That would be great thing for my petition. What you do
> > here flies straight in the face of the goals of the Linux Software.
> >
> > In that case I think we cannot cooperate any further and I will
> > shut down everything I am running for you.
>
> Whoa people! Grow up! (both of you & others)
>
> The mailing list is very important, as is an official 1-way gateway.
> These do-it-yourself gateways are causing problems. They must go away.
> They _will_ go away if an official gateway exists. Isn't vger overloaded?
> The "no gateway" policy adds more subscriber load, including people
> that only need read-only access. Others give up because the traffic is
> too much for normal mail software and people take vacations sometimes.
>
> Gateway properties include:
>
> 1. officially approved
> 2. vger -> usenet ONLY
> 3. destroy email addresses (headers, body...)
> 4. no posts on usenet side (moderater is FAQ autoresponder)
> 5. remove MIME, PGP, and HTML patch corruption for usenet
> 6. support X-Keep-Email: header for those that tolerate spam
> 7. enforce read-only nature with automatic cancel
> 8. fast, with priority above other exploders
>
> Are there really any serious objections to that?
>