-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on May 23, William M. Quarles did say: > > On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:14, M. Fioretti wrote: > > <snip> > > > > I personally believe that the choice of a mailing list makes a great > > deal of sense over a traditional newsgroup in that the amount of spam > > can be limited in a members-only-post mailing list, whereas any spammer > > with a news-flooder can post to newsgroups. > > > > Someone correct me if I am wrong, but newsgroups can be member-restricted as > well. As in when I first experimented posting to this newsgroup via NTTP on news.gmane.org by posting a follow-up to a message on what they call: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general and got this??: - -> Subject: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general: Authorization required - -> - -> You have sent a message to be posted on the - -> gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general newsgroup. - -> - -> Before the message is posted on the newsgroup, you have - -> to confirm that you exist. Just reply to this message, and - -> the message will be posted. - -> - -> - -> You have to respond within one week. - -> - -> -- - -> Your friendly autoauthorizer at Gmane.org - -> http://gmane.org/ - -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsYujRZ/61mwhY94RArDOAJ9iH+EtnlwnSwmL79NgM9//W+hIvACgvYRG 23K89KCwyTT5wL4SrAF+x5I= =52KH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
