[R] Newsgroup - another try?

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Sep 4 17:10:36 CEST 2001


Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:

> It's also possible to set up a local mail to news gateway, so that the
> mailing list appears to local users at your site as a newsgroup; if
> you do that, please make sure that posting is only allowed from local
> users (or your site will become a source of spam on the mailing list).

And be very VERY careful to avoid feeding incoming mail back as new
messages to the list. I have seen this happen several times on other
lists. It can create tons of duplicate messages in no time....

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