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Shawn Carruthers [24 Feb 1999 @ 01:55 +0000 GMT]:
>
> Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to
> linux-kernel can post.
>
> This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which
> is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers.
>
> Quite a few newsgroups run like this.

Problem with that is non-list members can't send bug-reports in that
instance, which is the way a lot of people send reports. We can't
expect everyone who needs to send a bug report to join the list. If we
did we'd lose a fair proportion of bug reports.

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Justin Hahn <jehahn@raven.bu.edu>
Systems Administrator Boston University SPI Lab
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