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From: pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Email to Usenet gateways?
Message-ID: <13293@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 23 Oct 89 05:03:48 GMT
References: <"891020081648.75046.606.CHD38-1"@CompuServe.COM>
Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU
Reply-To: pvo3366@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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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.
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Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251