Re: Usenet gateway?

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:58:36 -0400 (EDT)


>> Email address: [a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+
>> Substitution: get-faq@some-exploder.com
>
> Breaks kernel patches sent across the list

Nope, only for those that get the news version. Patches always
end up on www.linuxhq.com anyway, so everyone can get a clean copy.
Better even, because the PGP/MIME/whatever corruption gets fixed.

You can still read the list directly.

The whole point of this is so that list users won't be troubled
by people that just want to keep up with recent development.
No spam, no noise, no mail loops, and less load on vger.

Note: this kills standard email addresses that a spammer might
want to grep for, not the sender's real name. Patch corruption
should be minimal, limited to email addresses in the patch and
maybe perl scripts or makefiles.