Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!sloane From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: News<->Mailing list gateway Message-ID: <19471.257f9ec1@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 8 Dec 89 17:45:05 GMT References: Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 58 In article , "Tom Limoncelli @ Drew University" writes: > I know this is going to sound funny coming from me, but need > a copy of the programs that permit ANU NEWS to receive mailing lists > as newsgroups. > > So far I have been doing it with hacks and half-working .COM files > (and Tim Russell's very good ADD.COM) but now I finally have time to > "do it right". Also, I'm moving all my listserv newsgroups from > "net.*" to "bit.listserv.*" as I recently found out "is proper." > And, since I'm going to "do it right" I figured I should get the > right software too. > > (1) -- Where can I get it? The answer to this depends on what you want to do. If what you want is to gateway BITNET mailing list into local newsgroups, then I suspect that what you want to do can be done with just the standard NEWS V5.9 stuff. If you want to gateway BITNET mailing lists to network newsgroups, then I have a couple of programs that I wrote to gate the ANU-NEWS mailing list to news.software.anu-news. I can send you a copy if you want it. > By the way, are there any plans to add the Gateway functions to the > .EXE? This would be really great, though I still put "faster > startup" on the top of my list. The gateway to local newsgroups is already there, although I haven't tried using it yet. > Speaking of speeding up News, I did some tests, and there seems to be > a lot of DIO. My best guess is that this is directory lookups when opening files. It sure would be nice if someone could use PCA or whatever to analyse NEWS performance. > (2) -- How does everyone else have the FDL set up on their database? I run the following command procedure weekly to kee the NEWS database optimized. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 $ analyze/rms/fdl/output=news_root:newsgroups.fdl news_root:news.groups $ edit/fdl/analyze=news_root:newsgroups.fdl/nointer news_root:newsgroups.fdl $ convert/reclaim news_root:news.groups $ convert/fdl=news_root:newsgroups - news_root:news.groups news_root:news.groups $ purge news_root:news.groups $ purge news_root:newsgroups.fdl $ analyze/rms/fdl/output=news_root:newsitems.fdl news_root:news.items $ edit/fdl/analyze=news_root:newsitems.fdl/nointer news_root:newsitems.fdl $ convert/reclaim news_root:news.items $ convert/fdl=news_root:newsitems.fdl - news_root:news.items news_root:news.items $ purge news_root:news.items $ purge news_root:newsitems.fdl