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From: rand@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com (Douglas K. Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Can I make mail look like news?
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Date: 5 Jun 91 15:41:29 GMT
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** johnb@hobbes.mdc.com (John Breen) on 5 Jun 91 00:39:58 GMT
** in [Can I make mail look like news?] writes:

John> I've recently subscribed to the mailing-list form of this
John> newsgroup, since I don't have USENET access anymore (end of the
John> semester, you know).  However, mail isn't quite as nice as news.
John> Is there any mail reader, sendmail configuration file, or other
John> tricks that can make mail look more like news?

You don't really have to make mail look like news, just install news
and pump your mail into news. We don't have a Usenet feed either
(yet). We are using News locally for "communications".

John> In retrospect, it may have been better to have the mailing list
John> mail sent to a "dummy" account.

This is how we do it. For every mailing list we subscribe to that more
than one person is interested in (and for a few that only I am
interested in :-) we created news groups for them.

For example, I read your article in our mailing-lists.apollo news
group. To do this, create an alias in your /usr/lib/aliases file that
looks something like:

apollo:			"| /usr/local/lib/news/recnews mailing-lists.apollo"

And then tell the list maintainer to change your address to this new
alias. All of a sudden you have your mail in news. We are getting
about half a dozen mailing lists this way.

(The recnews program is part of B-news. I don't think C-news has
anthing that works like it yet. But then, I'm not a C-news expert.)

The draw back is that you cannot post to the news group. You have to
send mail. This isn't too awfully bad for us, as most of the folks
reading news are "reasonably intellegent". (Oh, they are reading this
too. Hi folks!)

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