randy@ranhome.UUCP (Randys Account) (10/16/85)
Unfortunately, many of us do not have Berkely style aliasing for mail. However, there is an alternative of sorts. What I do is to make the file /usr/spool/mail/[usenet|news] a link to my mailbox file. If I were ever to actually take a vacation (:-)) I would just change the link to whoever was going to be news administrator in my place, then change it back when I returned. It may be crude, but it seems to work for me. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | allegra\ Randy Horton | | decwrl \ | | dual >!pyramid!ranhome!randy | | nsc / | | topaz / | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
andy@Shasta.ARPA (10/20/85)
Randy Horton (randy@ranhome.UUCP) writes: > > Unfortunately, many of us do not have Berkely style aliasing for mail. > However, there is an alternative of sorts. What I do is to make the file > /usr/spool/mail/[usenet|news] a link to my mailbox file. If I were ever to > actually take a vacation (:-)) I would just change the link to whoever was > going to be news administrator in my place, then change it back when I > returned. It may be crude, but it seems to work for me. > Another alternative is to create a "usenet" account. The responsible person can login as "usenet". Of course, this only works in OSs that allow account creation. :-) -andy decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!andy goes to andy@su-sushi.arpa