>As the owner of over 20 lists and a heavy LISTSERV and USENET user, I
>would vote for having no default Newsgroup= value. The list owner should
>be aware that their list is being gatewayed into USENET and so should be
>responsible for putting in the appropriate Newsgroup= field and also
>setting the Send= Public field (this last field change allows users to
>Post to the list from a USENET newsreader program).
Sorry Jim, but I disagree. First, when I had to change LSTSRV-L it took
me one week. Because there are 8 peers, and because the network is far
from being as efficient as snail-mail, in a number of "problem" cases
which, unfortunately, always hit you on the back of the neck (because of
Murphy's law). Second, as a list owner what do I do if someone asks me
for permission to gateway his list into USENET? Frankly, I don't know
what it is, but I suspect it's going to be dangerous, so I'll ask
someone, who will say he doesn't know, and then I'll ask someone else,
and eventually LSTSRV-L or some other list, and a lot of people will say
it's great, some others will warn me that it can be dangerous and create
loops, after 2 weeks I still won't have made up my mind. And all that you
need is an end-user subscription to the list to make a USENET gateway, so
why should the list owner have to be involved, except in special cases?
Eric
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