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From: andy@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: The usenet contact discussion
Message-ID: <1398@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 05:51:21 EDT
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Randy Horton (randy@ranhome.UUCP) writes:
> 
> Unfortunately, many of us do not have Berkely style aliasing for mail.
> However, there is an alternative of sorts.  What I do is to make the file
> /usr/spool/mail/[usenet|news] a link to my mailbox file.  If I were ever to
> actually take a vacation (:-)) I would just change the link to whoever was
> going to be news administrator in my place, then change it back when I
> returned.  It may be crude, but it seems to work for me.
> 

Another alternative is to create a "usenet" account.  The responsible
person can login as "usenet".  Of course, this only works in OSs that
allow account creation. :-)

-andy

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