in reply to Perlmonks -> NNTP gateway

It doesn't say it is unidirectional: 
$ telnet desert-island.dynodns.net 119
Trying 217.186.77.68...
Connected to desert-island.dynodns.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Hi, you can post (sn version 0.3.6)
list
215 list follows
perlmonks.poll 43 10 y
perlmonks.obfuscated 13 10 y
perlmonks.qanda 24 10 y
perlmonks.snippet 16 10 y
perlmonks.pmdiscuss 56 10 y
perlmonks.sopw 604 10 y
perlmonks.news 10 10 y
perlmonks.nntpdiscuss 11 10 y
perlmonks.meditation 158 10 y
perlmonks.codecatacombs 17 10 n
perlmonks.poetry 13 10 y
perlmonks.cufp 21 10 y
perlmonks.craft 0 0 y
perlmonks.tutorial 0 0 y

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Re: Re: Perlmonks -> NNTP gateway
by castaway (Parson) on Nov 04, 2003 at 12:09 UTC
    The server isn't unidirectional, the gateway is. Meaning that if you post to the groups, what you post won't show up as a PerlMonks node.

    (Though you're right, actually we should disallow external posting to them, to avoid confusion..)

    C.

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Re: Re: Perlmonks -> NNTP gateway
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Nov 04, 2003 at 12:37 UTC

    Sorry, I accidently only had codecatacombs marked readonly. Fixed now, and it looks like nobody took advantage of the overpermissiveness. All groups except perlmonks.nntpdiscuss are now returned as readonly by list.

    It looks like nobody actualy attempted to post anything, and even if they had, it wouldn't have ended up on perlmonks -- the code for that isn't written yet. Instead, it would have just cluttered up the GW NNTP server.

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      attempted to post anything [...] it wouldn't have ended up on perlmonks -- the code for that isn't written yet.

      *shudder*

                      - tye
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