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From: brodie@fps.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: forwarding news items to users?
Message-ID: <3219.253ee9c6@fps.mcw.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 14:47:50 GMT
References: <8910191336.AA11350@uunet.uu.net>
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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In article <8910191336.AA11350@uunet.uu.net>, munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes:
>>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.
>      
> It's not really a back door method - its about the only way to make it happen -
> thats what the NEWS.SYS file is all about - i.e. items entered into newsgroups
> which match a NEWS.SYS entry are to be placed in a spool area as specified by
> that entry for later processing by a distribution mechanism.. so the olution
> posted is perhaps the best way of setting this up
>      
> Geoff Huston

thanks for the responses.  In the meantime, I figured out a REAL nifty
method.   The "transport" mechanism doesn't have to be fidged at all!
If you are running DECUS UUCP (vmsnet), then all you need to do is
the following:

1) do the above steps to get the news batches in separate files.
2) then, for each file, do
MAIL/PROTOCOL=UUCP_MAILSHR file.name "address of recipient"

...which not only takes care of the subject line, but also puts inthe correct
"from:" address!    kinda neat.
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