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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News newgroup handling (Was: Re: Enough of ...)
Message-ID: <2730597C.39AE@tct.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 90 17:21:00 GMT
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According to jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard):
>This sounds like a job for...DELIVER!

Of course.  Everything is 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.

I like the approach.  An alternative implementation would have
newgroup and rmgroup add a specially formatted line to the message.
Something like:

	@addgroup foo.bar y

Then the system delivery file, triggered by the Reply-To: address
would execute the given command (after checking it for
reasonableness, of course).

I just might do it...
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
    "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed
         by that evil Chip Salzenberg."   -- John F. Haugh II


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