wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (07/26/84)
Several people here in the UCLA CS Dep't have asked whether we could
set up a mail interface to the netnews stuff. That is, a user would
be able to post a message to one or more newsgroups by sending mail
to one or more magic addresses (sort of how like some places which run
the Berkeley "msgs" software let you send mail to "msgs").
The two main reasons this idea has come up are:
(1) People around here are very used to our locally developed mail-
sending program.
(2) People around here do NOT seem to like the "postnews" interface
at all.
I would like to know whether anyone has done this kind of thing already,
and if so, what kind of address format you have used. Ideas which I
have thought of include:
(1) Mailing to the newsgroup name itself:
To: net.general, net.flame, net.games.video
(2) Setting up something that looks like an imaginary ARPANET host
(a format which people here are used to, since we're on the
ARPANET):
To: net.general@USENET, net.flame@USENET,
net.games.video@USENET
I currently tend somewhat toward the "...@USENET" approach, but I am
willing to adopt something better if there is one.
Please, no flames of the form "what's wrong with postnews?" or "anything
of that type is a bletcherous kludge!" or "mail is mail, and news is
news, and never the twain shall meet".
-- Rich Wales
wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA
...!{ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!waleshansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen) (07/29/84)
One of the mail programs around here interfaces to the net with the syntax of % mail net:net.news.adm,net.unix-wizards Interfaces to some other services are also supported in like manner. Tony Hansen pegasus!hansen