Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!cuuxb.UUCP!mwm
From: mwm@cuuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Netnews in your mailbox
Message-ID: <8610091803.AA13594@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 14:03:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8610091803.AA13594
Posted: Thu Oct  9 14:03:12 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Oct-86 22:19:31 EDT
References: <8609302105.AA05950@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: cuuxb!mwm@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Marc W. Mengel)
Organization: AT&T-IS, Software Support, Lisle IL
Lines: 19
Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa
Summary: mh-6.1 will do it, with minor hacks

In article <8609302105.AA05950@cbosgd.ATT.COM> mark@cbosgd.att.com (Mark Horton) writes:
>>My host spends
>>90% of it's time on the ARPAnet sending and receiving INFO-THIS, and INFO-THAT.
>>Also, I have multiple users receiving the same message from INFO-WHATEVER
>>as separate TCP connections to my host.
>
>If the ARPANET mailing lists do turn out to be the cause of the problem,
>I'd like to suggest a possible solution:  Netnews.
...
>The major problems with using netnews on the ARPA Internet have
>historically been
...
>(2) Many users prefer to keep their mail and news lumped together
>in their mailbox. 

Recent versions of the MH mail handler allow you to read news
with your mail program(s); most easily under 4.xBSD with 
symbolic links from your mail directory into news directory's.