Markus Fleck wrote: > > M.-A. Lemburg: > > I've had a look at the c.l.p.a postings and the only special > > header they include is the "Approved: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de" > > header. > > Basically, that's all it takes to post to a "moderated" newsgroup. > (Talking about a case of "security by obscurity" here... :-/) > Actually, the string following the "Approved: " may even be random... Wow, so much for spam protection. > In principle, I do have the time again to do daily moderation of incoming > postings for c.l.py.a. Unfortunately, I currently lack the infrastructure > (i.e. the moderation program), which went down together with the old > starship. I was basically waiting for a version of Mailman that could be > used to post to moderated newsgroups. (I should probably have been more > vocal about that, or even should have started hacking Mailman myself... I > *did* start to write something that would grab new announcements daily from > Parnassus and post them to c.l.py.a, and I may even come to finish this in > September, but that doesn't substitute for a "real" moderation tool for > user-supplied postings. Also, it would probably be a lot easier for > Parnassus postings to be built directly from the Parnassus database, instead > from its [generated] HTML pages - the Parnassus author intended to supply > such functionality, but I didn't hear from him yet, either.) > > So what's needed now? Primarily, a Mailman installation that can post to > moderated newsgroups (and maybe also do the mail2list gatewaying for > c.l.py.a), and a mail alias that forwards mail for > python-announce@python.org to that Mailman address. Some "daily digest" > generator for Parnassus announcements would be nice to have, too, but > that can only come once the other two things work. > > Anyway, thanks for bringing this up again - it puts c.l.py.a at the > top of my to-do list again (where it should be, of course ;-). Barry has just installed a Mailman patch that allows gatewaying to a moderated newsgroup. He's also looking for volunteers to do the moderation. I guess you should apply by sending Barry a private mail (see the announcement on c.l.p.a ;-). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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