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Subject: multicasting news
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 09:43:14 EST
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Does anybody know if the following kind of multicasting in the ~news/sys
works? Multicasting using the "M" or "F" parameter should only work on a
specific type of network. What about this one, without the flags:

vms:junk::mail vms

This construction does not seem to work with us.
[Name "vms" is actually a logon entry on a tcp/ip connection on vms (wollogong)
and mail should be forwarded to decnet via SMTP (the mail works).]

Another method we use now is "readmail -p | mail vms" in a separate crontab
but than you need to give "vms" a login entry as well. And you're restricted
to a maximum nr. bytes  through sendmail.

thanks
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