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    From Marco Moock@mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de to news.groups.questions on Fri Feb 21 10:18:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.groups.questions

    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/
    --
    kind regards
    Marco

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