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From: johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen)
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Date: 24 Jun 91 15:48:24 GMT
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From: johnb@hobbes.mdc.com (John Breen)
Subject: news, mailing lists, and making the twain meet
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.154748.28403@hobbes.mdc.com>
Summary: Am I about to create a mail loop...?
Organization: e435
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 15:47:48 GMT

Well, I've just about got a local news system going, with this mailing list
fed into it, but one thing worries me:

I've got c-news & rn installed, a mail alias for the mailing list defined as
follows:

    ml-apollo: "|/bin/awk '!(/^From / && NR==1)' |/usr/lib/news/inews -h -n comp.sys.apollo"

and the newsgroup designated as moderated, as follows (in mailpaths):

    comp.sys.apollo apollo@engin.umich.edu

Each of these appear to work fine separately (although I've only tested the
mail alias manually).  However, I see a potential for an infinite loop: the
mail to ml-apollo will go to inews, which will mail it to
apollo@engin.umich.edu, which will send it back to ml-apollo, ...

I've tested it by manually mailing to ml-list, and it did apparently get sent
to apollo@engin.umich.edu.  Is inews smart enough to figure out when the mail
is coming from the moderator, or do I have a potential problem here?  If the
latter, how should this be done with cnews?

[BTW, I know this is more appropriate for other newsgroups, but this mailing
list is the only "external" news source I have].

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John A. Breen                           |  johnb@hobbes.mdc.com
McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Co.   |
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