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From: donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating ne
Message-ID: <3727@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 22:30:40 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3727
Posted: Wed Mar 19 22:30:40 1986
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Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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Summary: Mailing lists can be handled just like newsgroups

If you're running 2.10.3 B news with moderator software, you can treat
a mailing list exactly like a moderated newsgroup.

Let's say you want to subscribe to the mailing list 'nbc-volume!latenite'.
Create the local newsgroup 'mail.latenite' and put the line

	mail.latenite nbc-volume!latenite

in your 'moderators' file.  Add an appropriate mail alias; e.g. for
sendmail, you could use:

	mail-latenite: "|/usr/new/lib/news/recnews mail.latenite"

Send mail to 'nbc-volume!latenite-request' asking that mailing list
messages be sent to the address mail-latenite at your site.  Then
subscribe to 'mail.latenite' and you're all set.  The 2.10.3 postnews
will automatically mail instead of post any messages to 'mail.latenite',
and followups to articles in that group will also be mailed (beware --
some versions of postnews are broken and don't support this).  I don't
know if 'rn' supports this; it shouldn't be difficult to arrange if it
doesn't.

We actually use this here at Utah,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa
40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W    (801) 581-5668    decvax!utah-cs!donn