REBILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Russell E. Billings) (07/15/88)
Hello,
I have been working on a small VAX/VMS-Pascal based postnews
program that seems to be working quite well for its size, but
that leaves out a lot of features that real USENET sites have.
Specifically, I can not work out/find the method used to post
one file to two groups ("cross-posting"). Can one of you
show me how it is properly done?
The situation:
My site is a BITNET site only.
Our news comes in from UKMA over BITNET, where it is
promptly (3 days maximum delay) placed into a text
library, and forgotten.
In early February, one of our people was shown how to
post by using the internet gateways (at ucbvax),
and SMTP.
Soon after I learned how to do the same thing, I wrote
my program as a method of bypassing "gMail" (gateway
Mail), as the new version of gMail has some serious
defects.
My Problem:
I have not been able to figure out how to format my
mail to ucbvax so that I can cross-post. The normal address
(example: news-software-b@ucbvax.berkeley.edu) does not
allow for a single file to be appended to another group.
What can I do to fix the problem, or should I continue
to tell the people that I work with to just post it twice?
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Thanks,
Russell
Russell E. Billings -- Student Consultant -- University of Louisville
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