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In article <57cpg8$39o1@ns2-1.CC.Lehigh.EDU>, wsm0@Lehigh.EDU (Wayne S.
Mery) wrote:
> Does the Gateway at AMU allow for a list to be set to 
>   'postings by subscribers only'
> and still allow postings to originate  from the newsgroup side?
> 
> I ask because of increasing spammage send to the mailing list, I'd like to 
> 'close' the list.  I've been told there is software that allows
> the gateway to support this change.

The thing most people do is to change the newsgroup to be moderated, and
to specify the list as the address for submissions. This will cause all
posts (those from list subscribers as well as usenet readers) to arrive at
the same point -- the list address. All the normal tools available to the
list owner are then available. You do things such as change the list to
"Send=Private" or review certain peoples' posts.

Two notes. When someone posts to a moderated newsgroup their news software
detects this fact and mails the post *from them* to the address given for
submissions (possibly by way of a "mailpath" site). This means posts come
from the author and not the gateway. For moderated newsgroup the gateway
is really only processing approved posts from the mailing list to the
newsgroup. All posts coming from the list are assumed to be approved.

Secondly, the process to set a newsgroup takes a while and some posts from
people on usenet may be lost if made in the middle of the process. You
just need to warn the people who follow your newsgroup of this fact. Their
posts will be delivered correctly if they mail them to the list while the
newsgroup is being set to moderated.

Jim McIntosh (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington, DC USA 20016-8019