On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Alex Chaffee wrote:
> > > Newsgroups have a different audience and accessing method. I, for one,
> > > would probably stop following this list if it became a newsgroup.
>
> Slightly off-topic:
>
> Newsgroups and mailing lists are so similar technically. Hasn't anyone
> written a free, stable two-way bridge between email and nntp? I'd love to
> keep subscribing to the list digest, but be able to use a news reader to
> browse the archives...
Look at sunsite. There's something there with a pretty obvious name. It's
just a perll script for feeding email to news. To send your replies, make
the newsgroup a moderated one and feed them into another script via
sendmail.
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John Summerfield
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