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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Summary: Integrating Internet mail with News
Message-ID: <4548@becker.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 90 18:32:25 GMT
References: <1990Feb12.141913.2515@cs.hope.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1990Feb12.141913.2515@cs.hope.edu> jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) writes:
|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"

	I'm not sure about C News, but B News will
	have problems with this. Inews seems to be
	quite picky about missing "Subject:" lines
	and the order of lines in the header, etc.

	I wrote an awk filter which fixes up these
	problems because the incoming mail bounced
	when inews didn't like it.

	Other than this the steps you propose seem
	to work fine - I've been importing mailing
	lists into News for a few months this way.

	If you're running "smail" there is a patch
	which implements "|/usr/lib/news/xx..." in
	the "aliases" file...

Cheers,
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