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- From: gz@cambridge.apple.com (Gail Zacharias)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: Mailing list vs News Group
- Message-ID: <9208191730.AA09222@cambridge.apple.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 17:30:48 GMT
- References: <9208172014.AA06324@cambridge.apple.com>; from "Steve Strassmann" at Aug 17, 92 4:13 pm
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
- Lines: 19
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Full-Name: Gail Zacharias
- Original-To: info-mcl
- X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16]
-
- > This is correct - messages posted to comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- > are not posted to the info-mcl mailing list (although
- > info-mcl messages are posted to the newsgroup).
-
- Actually, that's NOT true. We have a bi-directional gateway
- between the mailing list and the newsgroup. Messages posted
- to comp.lang.lisp.mcl are forwarded to info-mcl and messages
- send to info-mcl are forwarded to comp.lang.lisp.mcl. Loops
- are prevented by not forwarding forwarded messages.
-
- Of course messages posted on comp.lang.lisp.mcl can only be
- forwarded to info-mcl if they reach our host (cambridge.apple.com).
- So for example if somebody at your site posts a message with
- distribution: local, then you will see it in your newsreader
- but it will never make it to the mailing list. Similarly if
- a posting from far away gets eaten up by some broken news site
- on the way to here. Or if our news feeds are acting up, as
- they had been recently, so we're not getting any news here at
- all (they appear to be fixed now)...
-