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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: forwarding news items to users?
Message-ID: <14988.253c61bd@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 89 16:42:53 GMT
References: <3207.253b118a@fps.mcw.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <3207.253b118a@fps.mcw.edu>, brodie@fps.mcw.edu writes:
> NEWS_POST.CC is a nifty file for mailing LOCALLY posted items to users.
> Does anyone know of a way to forward ANY posted items to users?
> (i.e., a news message comes in from the net, which I want forwarded.)
> 
> any ideas?
> (is there some capability of anu-news I am overlooking?)

You probably won't like this, but I suspect what you want could be done.
First, set up a dummy line in you news.sys file like:

mailer:world,na,usa,group.to.mail:B:news_manager_dev:[MAIL_group]NEWS.BATCH

Then write a program that mails the articles to the appropiate users. If it is
important to have the return addresses correct, use decnet, and forge the from
address.  This is pretty much what I did for the mailing list gateway that I
posted recently, except I used BITNET to deliver the mail instead of DECNET.
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