Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!esosun!ucsdhub!jack!crash!jeh
From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: News & Usenet for VAX/VMS
Message-ID: <2757@crash.cts.com>
Date: 1 Apr 88 00:46:22 GMT
References: <107@limbic.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
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Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Keywords: news usenet vax/vms
Summary: Not yet, but soon!

In article <107@limbic.UUCP> gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
>About 3 or 4 weeks ago, I posted a request to comp.os.vms (info-VAX for
>those BITNETers out there) requesting software which would allow me to
>establish myself as a usenet node, handle network mail using VMS mail,
>and read news on a plain-vanilla VMS system (ie. no UNIX(tm) emulators
>or the like).

I guess my reply to your request got eaten somewhere.  I'm in charge
(positive or negative, I'm not sure) of the "VMSnet Working Group" within
the VAX SIG of DECUS, and we're working on exactly this problem.  We'd hoped
to mail out test versions about six weeks ago, but real-world work intervened.
Last week, though, I talked my boss into "funding" me to work on the project
part time as *part* of my real work, so we should be able to clean things
up and ship out test tapes in another couple of weeks.  Maybe.  

The vital pieces are gnuucp, Geoff Huston's ANU News, Kevin Carosso's 
foreign mail protocol interface to VMS mail, and sendmail and pathalias.  
We will support DECnet channels as well as uucp quite early, if not with
the first "release", and Kevin wants to add gnuucp as a PMDF channel, 
providing even more options and flexibility.  He and Tom Allebrandi and
I are giving a talk at DECUS (Cincinnati, mid-May) describing the current
state of the project.  If you  can't be there, just watch this newsgroup
for details...