75046.606@CompuServe.COM (Larry W. Virden) (10/20/89)
Is any system other than ucbvax providing email to usenet interfaces to the public? I know ucbvax indicates that their service may be terminated unannounced at any time in the future - I am just wondering about alternatives if this occurs. Some users , from Compuserve for instance, have no other means of posting to the net.
pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) (10/23/89)
In article <"891020081648.75046.606.CHD38-1"@CompuServe.COM> 75046.606@CompuServe.COM (Larry W. Virden) writes: >Is any system other than ucbvax providing email to usenet interfaces to >the public? I know ucbvax indicates that their service may be terminated >unannounced at any time in the future - I am just wondering about alternatives >if this occurs. >Some users , from Compuserve for instance, have no other means of posting >to the net. Anyone wanting to provide this service could do so trivially with the mail2news perl script currently taking up disk space on your system. See: >From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: generic mail-to-news interface Message-ID: <2100@convex.UUCP> Date: 16 Oct 89 13:24:34 GMT Sender: news@convex.UUCP Reply-To: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 89 Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251
bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson) (10/23/89)
The WELL in Sausolito (near SF) maintains such a gateway. It is an inexpensive, excellent conferencing system that many maintain is what Usenet could evolve into with a lot of work. You can reach it via 1200 baud modem at 415-332-6106, although there are additional ports with up to 9.6K capacity.
tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (10/27/89)
In article <"891020081648.75046.606.CHD38-1"@CompuServe.COM> 75046.606@CompuServe.COM (Larry W. Virden) writes: |Is any system other than ucbvax providing email to usenet interfaces to |the public? I know ucbvax indicates that their service may be terminated |unannounced at any time in the future - I am just wondering about alternatives |if this occurs. |Some users , from Compuserve for instance, have no other means of posting |to the net. Several other systems have the ucbvax email-to-and-from-USENET software up, and would step into the breach, if ucbvax stopped providing the service. I wouldn't worry much about the interface (more commonly known as a gateway) disappearing suddenly. The folks who run ucbvax are responsible and competent. WARNING: Be very careful when setting up an interface between USENET and an emailing list to insure there is only one such gateway. Make sure there aren't any cyclic loops either! (E.g. USENET <-> Internet E-mail <-> BITNET <-> USENET). The software running at ucbvax was specifically designed to handle such gateways and is superior for this purpose then: B news recnews, a quick sh script hack, or the perl script I saw on USENET recently. enjoy -len