From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 14:44:38 CDT
In <20020702095008.GQ45106@demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:
>Here's one possible mechanism: use NNTP to a central site (or sites).
>At present, messages to moderated groups are emailed to
>group-name@moderators.isc.org (or wherever has replaced it). Instead,
>suppose they are POSTed to an NNTP server on moderators.isc.org (which, of
>course, could be an alias for multiple machines). That server then routes
>the article in whatever way that moderator wants - the server administrator
>would offer a number of options, including encapsulation, RFC 2047, or
>anything else.
Yes, that is one of the ideas that was being floated on the moderators'
list (though not using NNTP). But the aim there was to "decapsulate" those
dratted encapsulated articles if they should appear in a pure ASCII
newsgroup (it being accepted that moderators of non-ASCII groups would
have to learn to deal with encapsulated stuff). So in that scenario you
would still send the article by mail.
One of the suggestions made was that the existing moderators.isc.org MX
record sites would be programmed to do that job, but doubt was expressed
that they would be willing - there is already a severe shortage of sites
willing to provide that service at all.
Also, with your particular central site proposal, those sites would have
to be prepared to accept these submissions in UUCP and all other transport
mechanisms known to be in use for Usenet.
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