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net.general,net.news,net.news.group
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxn!otto
Sun Feb 21 22:45:36 1982
Re: school.xxx
Is anyone working on making mailing lists just as efficient as newsgroups?
One problem with using mailing lists for maintaining communications among
those in a small group of people is the difficulty of keeping
the lists on many machines in sync.  I tried looking into setting up a
program under my ID that would allow others to mail to me for automatic
redistribution to a list I maintained, but never found a good way to do
it.  The beauty of using USENET it that members of affected groups can
be on different machines and need do one or two simple things to be
attached to the common group.

If anyone has a program that can intercept mail addressed to me on a vanilla
UNIX (without needing superprogrammer status) and automatically redirect
it to others on a given list, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.
Otherwise, I would still like to set up USENET groups such as school.xxx
for the reasons discussed before.

George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
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