From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 15:29:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA18577 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 15:29:57 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA18571 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 15:29:56 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id PAA18394; Mon, 15 May 1995 15:29:43 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505152229.PAA18394@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: mail<->news gateway.. (yes.. again..) To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 15:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at May 16, 95 06:16:21 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 777 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Before you all cringe in terror, I'm not talking about a Usenet gateway.. > :-) > > What I've done in the past, is have various mailing lists gatewayed into a > local newsgroup (uni-directional). This seems to come up every so often, > and it's so much more convenient to read and follow, but it's not entirely > trivial to set up. > > What about this: Suppose I was to reconfigure it to be bidirectional (I'm > using a relative of the same software that runs the gnu.* groups <-> gnu > mailing lists gateway) and nntp feed it to various other sites. DO IT! What names will you use ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'