[pvrusb2] This mailing list and gmane

[Mike Isely]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Mike Isely wrote:

> 
> This pvrusb2 mailing list has been subscribed to the gmane mail-to-news 
> gateway.  What this means is that posts here are going to show up in a 
> newsgroup and that gmane is going to relay messages from the newsgroup 
> back into the mailing list.
> 
> I'm not sure this is a good idea.
> 
> My main concern is spam.  Right now the pvrusb2 list _only_ allows posts 
> from confirmed subscribers.  I set it up this way to keep the list from 
> being spammed.  But now we have an external entity acting as a proxy for 
> submitting messages.  Anyone posting on the newsgroup can find his/her 
> message appearing here.  So now the "confirmed subscriber" safety valve 
> has been violated.  This worries me that it might be opening up the list 
> to receiving of spam.  The message I received detailing this also points 
> out that the gateway can be made to be 1-way, i.e. posts not forwarded.  
> That would solve the spam risk, but then I don't intend on monitoring that 
> newsgroup and so people who post there are going to go unanswered.
> 
> Does anyone have any opinion about this?  I don't have a lot of personal 
> experience with gmane, but if people can convince me that it's OK then I'm 
> OK with it too.  If there are people here that object to the gateway (even 
> just 1 or 2 people), then I'll sever the connection permanently.
> 
> For the moment I've put the gateway's subscriber address on moderation and 
> suspended posts to it so the gateway is effectively disabled.
> 
>   -Mike
> 

Aside from the person who set up the gateway initially, I haven't heard 
from anyone else about this subject.  So there doesn't seem to be an issue 
and I'll re-enable it a little later today.

  -Mike


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