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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: C News newgroup handling (Was: Re: Enough of ...)
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Date: 27 Oct 90 13:38:03 GMT
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In article <1990Oct26.173215.17486@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>I have been trying to figure out some way to do the following;  Every
>new/rmgroup message is mailed to user usenet so that replies get sent to
>an alias for a process which does the actual newgroup or rmgroup.  That
>way I just read my mail and when I see a valid control message I just press
>'r' to reply with the text included.  Bogus messages just get a 'd' and
>don't get processed.  I don't know when I will get a chance to do this but
>any suggestions in the mean time are welcome.

This sounds like a job for...DELIVER!

I haven't looked at this yet, but it seems that you could have
$NEWSBIN/ctl/newgrp and /rmgrp send mail to usenet with a reply-to; the 
deliver.sys file for the reply-to (call it newsaction) would split out the
body of the message, set up necessary environment, and feed it to sh. This
would be kinda like the B news checkgroups processor: the message would be a
shell script with whatever comments you need, and the only uncommented text
would be addgrp commands.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
         "With design like this, who needs bugs?" - Boyd Roberts