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From: rs@mirror.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: Re: Want help for news->notes gateway
Message-ID: <224400005@mirror>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 09:26:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 09:26:00 1987
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>/* Written 11:33 am  Feb  3, 1987 by rct@occrsh.UUCP in mirror:news.software.notes */
>In article <224400003@mirror> rs@mirror.UUCP writes:
>>    Rick Adams made a casual(?) comment at Usenix that provides the
>>    right way to handle this situation:  have the news->notes gateway
>>    ignore any groups it can't find in /usr/lib/news/active.
>
>This assumes that the news software and the notes software exist on the
>same machine, or at least that the active file is conveniently accessible

You can't do a news/notes gateway without having both new and notes existing
on the same machine.
Rich $alz					"Drug tests p**s me off"
Mirror Systems, Cambridge Massachusetts		rs@mirror.TMC.COM
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