Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:2787 news.software.b:4172 Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!usfvax2!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Summary: Integrating Internet mail with News Message-ID: <25DC072E.292@tct.uucp> Date: 16 Feb 90 13:59:10 GMT References: <1990Feb12.141913.2515@cs.hope.edu> <265@herron.uucp> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 21 According to jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov: >jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) writes: >> (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" > >I had a problem with this in that it leaves the Message-Id alone. >This is fine unless you mail a message to two such lists, and >then one of them bounces as a dup. Recnews tosses the Message-Id >(and a lot of other headers) and was a more satisfactory solution for >me. However, constructing reference trees is difficult when the message ID is dropped. Instead of dropping it, why not arrange a method of cross-posting? After all, such an approach is preferable to sending the same article twice, costing "hundreds if not thousands of dollars." -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT , "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."