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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm wishlist - news posting
Keywords: elm post news
Message-ID: <638@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 17:17:21 GMT
References: <896@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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In article <896@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
writes:
> I would like elm to have the ability to post an item on uucp news.
> -- 
> Bitnet:   david@wubios.wustl                Mr. David J. Camp
> Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu      Box 8067, Biostatistics
> uucp:     uunet!wucs1!wubios!david          660 South Euclid
> Washington University (314) 36-23635        Saint Louis, MO 63110

From the main menu, enter the "pipe to" command |.  When asked for the
command, enter:

	/usr/lib/news/recnews [ newsgroup ] [ sender ] ]

If you have sendmail or delivermail you could put this sort of line in
the /usr/lib/aliases file:

	mymail:"|/usr/lib/news/recnews mynewsgroup"
          ^                                ^
          |                                |
         your mail handle                 your private news group

Then you could deal with ALL your mail from a News reader such as rn,
and you would not need to use elm at all.  Note that keeping your
private news group private requires some modification to the News
software.  Also, the result would not be as powerful as elm unless a
private newsgroup hierarchy could be created.  This is all still just a
pipe dream at my site, but I am thinking about it.  Elm is currently
twice the size of rn, is about half as good a reader, and continues to
feed its face with every patch.
--
John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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