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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Email to Usenet gateways?
Message-ID: <41280@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 89 23:41:35 GMT
References: <"891020081648.75046.606.CHD38-1"@CompuServe.COM>
Reply-To: tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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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.

Several other systems have the ucbvax email-to-and-from-USENET
software up, and would step into the breach, if ucbvax stopped
providing the service.

I wouldn't worry much about the interface (more commonly known as a
gateway) disappearing suddenly.  The folks who run ucbvax are
responsible and competent.

WARNING: Be very careful when setting up an interface between USENET
and an emailing list to insure there is only one such gateway.  Make
sure there aren't any cyclic loops either!  (E.g. USENET <-> Internet
E-mail <-> BITNET <-> USENET).  The software running at ucbvax was
specifically designed to handle such gateways and is superior for this
purpose then: B news recnews, a quick sh script hack, or the perl
script I saw on USENET recently.

enjoy -len