deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian) (06/07/91)
There are a large number of users and systems folks here reading internet mailing lists (with some significant redundancy) who'd prefer to read them as USENET news. Ideally, a "followup" posting generated from within the newsreader would generate a message back to the internet mailing list. I'm considering Rich $alz' package mail2news/news2mail (nee 'nrecnews' by Erik Fair) for the job. A paragraph from the README: | With these programs and the right set of mail aliases and news sys and | active file entries, it is possible to build any set of moderated, | unmoderated, one-way, or bi-directional gateways between any set of news | and mail groups and lists that your little heart desires. Each piece seems to work well on its own -- I'm already reading sun-nets and a few others as news, and for test purposes getting rec.food.recipes as mail -- but I'm mighty afraid of what'll happen if I put the pieces together. How do I persuade news2mail to only ship articles back to the mailing list when they are generated locally, as opposed to when they've been received as mail and gatewayed into news via mail2news? I'd be tempted to handle this with Distribution: headers somehow, but since I don't want to pass this stuff onto my usenet neighbors, I intended to make all the distribution lines for the gatewayed mailing lists "local". Installation Details: + Cnews patched to 18-Jan-1990 (yes, I suppose I'm a bit behind...) + SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun3/80 serving as a news and mail server for lots of Sun3 and Sun4 computers. Any information or advice appreciated. ^Deke Kassabian, deke@ee.rochester.edu or ur-valhalla!deke Univ of Rochester, Dept of EE, Rochester, NY 14627 (+1 716-275-3106)