dpassage@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (David G. Paschich) (06/06/91)
In article <9106051541.AA20182@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com> rand@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com (Douglas K. Rand) writes: >** johnb@hobbes.mdc.com (John Breen) on 5 Jun 91 00:39:58 GMT >** in [Can I make mail look like news?] writes: > >John> I've recently subscribed to the mailing-list form of this >John> newsgroup, since I don't have USENET access anymore (end of the >John> semester, you know). However, mail isn't quite as nice as news. >John> Is there any mail reader, sendmail configuration file, or other >John> tricks that can make mail look more like news? > >You don't really have to make mail look like news, just install news >and pump your mail into news. We don't have a Usenet feed either >(yet). We are using News locally for "communications". > >John> In retrospect, it may have been better to have the mailing list >John> mail sent to a "dummy" account. > >This is how we do it. For every mailing list we subscribe to that more >than one person is interested in (and for a few that only I am >interested in :-) we created news groups for them. > >For example, I read your article in our mailing-lists.apollo news >group. To do this, create an alias in your /usr/lib/aliases file that >looks something like: > >apollo: "| /usr/local/lib/news/recnews mailing-lists.apollo" > >And then tell the list maintainer to change your address to this new >alias. All of a sudden you have your mail in news. We are getting >about half a dozen mailing lists this way. > >(The recnews program is part of B-news. I don't think C-news has >anthing that works like it yet. But then, I'm not a C-news expert.) > >The draw back is that you cannot post to the news group. You have to >send mail. This isn't too awfully bad for us, as most of the folks >reading news are "reasonably intellegent". (Oh, they are reading this >too. Hi folks!) Actually, the latest news software (I'm not sure if Bnews has it, but Cnews does) has a provision for moderated newsgroups, where messages it receives to be posted to a particular group are instead mailed to the moderator. You could set up your local news setup so that the mailing-lists.* newsgroups are moderated, with the moderator's address being the address of the newsgroup. Follow-ups to news.software.b, becuase this isn't just of interest to those of us stuck with Apollos. David G. Paschich Open Computing Facility UC Berkeley dpassage@ocf.berkeley.edu "They might be brain / They might be washed / They might be Dr. Spock's back-up band"