Re: mail 2 news gateways ?

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Piero Serini (piero@strider.inet.it)
Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:46:17 +0200 (MET DST)

Quoting from pshuang@MIT.EDU (Wed Sep 7 15:56:43 1994):
> Piero Serini asked:
> > Maybe I need a mail->news gateway, so I ask here. While I'm at
> > it I wonder: is it 'legal' to post a FAQ through such a service ?
>
> (The *.answers moderators' opinions only "matter" for FAQ's which are
> cross-psoted to *.answers, of course.) We have no particular

OK.

...
> though. Given that e-mail is so easily forged, I would suspect that
> many of the well-publicized mail->news gateways would have
> deliberately blocked posting approved articles to moderated newsgroups
> to help prevent semi-anonymous spamming.

I'll ask postmaster@those sites, then.

> I note that I haven't seen an answer to Piero's first question, which
> is where mail->news gateway (software) can be obtained....

Yes, many replied via private e-mail, thanks.

Bye,

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