The following information was extracted from
the Listowners-l. This capability was provided
to the listowners on 31 March 2000 and had this
been relayed to the subscribers, it would have
alleviated a great deal of posts. In simple terms,
the Carman-l has the power to turn off the feature
or turn it on and should also rely the problems of
using the identity of poster to a Genconnect Board.
FYI:
"GenConnect boards can now be "gatewayed" to mailing
lists. When a board is gatewayed to a mailing list,
every message posted to the GenConnect board will be
forwarded to the corresponding mailing list.
The message sent to the list will contain the URL of
the specific post to allow the list subscribers to
respond directly to the message. In this manner, gatewaying
will enable more effective communication between the
mailing lists and the GC boards.
Here's how it works. In order to establish a gateway,
two things need to happen:
1. The mailing list administrator needs to add
`gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com' to their accept list.
2. The GC Board administrator needs to activate the
gateway, using the Change Page at
http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/signup/change.html.
If the GC Board administrator activates the gateway but
`gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com' hasn't been added to your
accept list, then GC posts will try to send posts to
your list, but they will be tagged "{not a subscriber}"
and bounced to you. This is important; GC admins
should *not* try to activate the gateway without first
checking with the corresponding mailing list admin.
Note: many "Cluster" mailing lists have
gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com added to the accept list by
default when the list is created. List admins
for these lists who do not wish to allow
gatewaying should remove this address from their
accept list."