[Nottingham] Too much traffic

[Robert Davies]

On Friday 07 March 2003 11:42, Duncan John Fyfe wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Robert Davies wrote:
> > There would have to be a central news server or it makes no sense.
> > But that needs someone willing to host it, and administer it.

> > The Mail to News gateway has to handle posts made on the News side and
> > forward them to the list.
>
> What I meant was...(not meant to be patronising)
>
> As it stands mail to the list is authenticated vs subscriber e-addresses. 
> If the sender isn't known the message lands on Godfrey's lap to deal with
> as he sees fit.
>
> If someone were to post via the news gateway we would need to have their
> email address to authenticate against but if we have it then they will be
> receiving the list by email which is what they are trying to avoid ;)
>
> Maybe a news gateway can do clever things with mail headers to get round
> this.  I don't know

So you require authentication to access the news server!

Thinking on though, it'd probably be better to use a web archive, using 
software similar to MARC.

It would be more acessible and provide back issues to those using sane Email 
clients.

Rob