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On 20.02.2025 23:31 Uhr Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:

On 19.02.2025 22:29 Uhr Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:

Hello!

mailing.* looks like a gateway to certain mailing list. Who
maintains that?

Good question. I'd love to understand that (and more) too.

A gateway is a service that posts messages from a newsgroup to a
mailing list and vice-versa.
Often this is being done with moderated newsgroups.

I'd like to understand better how they work. For instance, if I have
an NNTP server such as Leafnode and I have a mailing list hosted by
qmail, say, what software would I run to gateway these two systems?

IIRC Mailman supports that.
Sendmail supports that too by using aliases piping the mail to rpost.

PS: qmail is dead, I don't recommend running that nowadays.

It also depends on whether the newsgroup is moderated or not. If
moderated, the post needs the Approved-header added before posting it.

Moderated groups cause news servers to send the post to the moderation
address, which is the mailing list address in this case.

I can't find control files for certain groups there that are on
E-S. E.g. mailing.unix.samba-announce

What's a control file for a certain group?

TLDR: Control files cause groups to be created or deleted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_message

But where do you find control files for any group here on E-S? For
instance, where's the control file for comp.misc, say? I have no idea
how things work here.

The ISC archives that on their FTP server: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/
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kind regards
Marco

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