Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: BAILEY%mordor.draper.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Tom Bailey, C. S. Draper Lab, x2476) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: News<->Mailing list gateway Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 15:16:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: "Tom Bailey, C. S. Draper Lab, x2476" Lines: 31 X-VMS-To: CCFVX3::IN%"TLIMONCE%DRUNIVAC.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu" "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. >... We have been working on a PMDF NEWS channel. Also, we currently have a system of DCL and TPU procedures based on DELIVER. The basice idea behind each of these is to determine to which newsgroup a mail message should be posted, add the appropriate headers (newsgroup:, rnews (if you want to make it look like a news feed), etc.), and mail the modified message off to the USENET or NEWSMGR account. After that, our normal NEWSSKIM process takes over, extracting mail to NEWMGR, adding it to NEWS, etc. The PMDF channel procedures have been written (DCL and TPU again) but not tested. (Our postmaster is too busy to add the channel to the PMDF configuration files.) I can send them out to anyone who is interested. If someone were ambitious, it shouldn't be too hard to write a channel program (executable, not a DCL procedure) which uses the PMDF libraries and the NEWS libraries to directly insert new messages into the NEWS database. The DELIVER based procedures are a bit of a mess (actually the DELIVER stuff works very well, but the DCL procedure I use to form the DELIVER database are messy), so I don't want to send them out unless someone is *really* interested. Send a message if you would like more information. Tom Bailey C. S. Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA bailey@mordor.draper.com