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From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Subject: Summary: Integrating Internet mail with News
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.141913.2515@cs.hope.edu>
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Organization: Hope College Dept. of CS
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 14:19:13 GMT

I posted a query here last week about how to integrate Internet-only 
mailing lists with news.  I got many responses, and here is a summary.

Here's what worked for us.  We are using C news.

   (1) Set up local groups with some arbitrary top level name.  We 
       chose "mail." for our top level.  Hence, the Internet list "foo"
       becomes the "mail.foo" group.  MAKE THIS GROUP MODERATED.

   (2) Use an alias for the group on your machine.  That alias should 
       pump the input through "inews" as follows:

          foo: "| /usr/lib/news/inews -h -a rfc -n mail.foo"

   (3) Now for users posting to the "mail.foo" group, add a line to the
       "/usr/lib/news/mailpaths" file as follows:

          mail.all     %s
       
       Since the "mail.foo" group was created as moderated in step (1), this 
       means that both followups and postings will go to the alias "mail-foo".

   (4) Finally, set up another mail alias "mail-<group>" to route posting
       out through mail back to the list's origin.  The mail alias for 
       "mail.foo" must be "mail-foo".

This is pretty straighforward (I think) and requires no hacking.  We seem
to be flowing pretty smoothly.

Thanks go to the following folks:
     tadguy@cs.odu.edu
     nagel@wintermute.ics./uci.edu
     night@pawl.rpi.edu
     herron!jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
     ficc!peter
     brian@ucsd.edu
     mdb@kosciusko.esd.3com.com
     spaf@cs.purdue.edu
     chinacat.Lonestar.ORG!chip@cs.utexas.edu

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