In message <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> writes >Gavin writes: > >> So, can anyone think of a reason *not* to prevent messages posed to >> comp.sys.hp.mpe from being gatewayed to HP3000-L *if* they were originally >> posted to more than one newsgroup? >> >> This would have eliminated the "SKC Morphs Again... We're Now SKHPC" thread >> entirely as the message that triggered that message was an advertisement >> posted to several newsgroups at once. > >One important thing to mention in all of this is that doing this would have >zero effect on anyone on the newsgroup side who posts to just comp.sys.hp.mpe >only, which is of course virtually everyone on that side of the fence. Their >world would otherwise be unmodified. Their postings would still be gated >through, as normally done, and the list's would be gated back to the >newsgroup. > >The only real difference is that the readers of the newsgroup would have the >added benefit of still being able to read all of the Shannon Knows postings. >They would continue to appear there. If we didn't use our 'Kill Thread' capabilities :-) -- Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *