Bob Ebert wrote:
>
> At 12:15 PM -0700 5/26/99, Bobby Kolev wrote:
> >And then again, how about newsgroups?
>
> Many of us prefer the email format. (Partly because of newsreader issues.)
>
> As a kind of low priority background task, I've been searching around for
> server software that would act as a gateway between a mailing list and a
> news group.
>
> That is, I want a little app for a list server that will post email
> messages to a newsgroup, and another process that takes incoming news
> articles and emails them to the list. It would have to be smart about
> email addresses and subject lines, so that threads could still be followed.
>
> It sounds very simple, but I haven't seen any easy way to set this up. It
> could almost be a Perl script. Any pointers?
>
> --Bob
Bob,
I've been transferring these mail lists to a newsgroup on an
internal-to-Tegic server since last August. I use a little Win32 program
that I wrote myself. Over time, the program has gotten pretty stable
with regard to the glitches in various message headers that the news
server (that runs under Linux) doesn't like.
For the other direction, though, I do it by hand. "Re: Mail" under
Netscape 3.x's news reader causes the mail list to be put into the "To:"
field. If I were to reply to the newsgroup, the reply would go no
further than 2 feet away from my keyboard where the old Linux system's
disk drive whines through the eons. :)
Alex Robinson
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