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To: Gary Roberts <gary@wcs.uq.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups 
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 10:02:08 +0200
From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Gary
Re.
> If every `lurker' agreed to
> `adopt a newbie' and hold his/her hand until he/she got running, that
> should immediately reduce newbie traffic in both news and mail by
> transferring the traffic from the public lists to private e-mail. 

> Apart from a few scripts, I have no programming skills. 

> I would really like to ease the burden on
> those who are `at the coal face' 

Good idea - would you like to prototype it as shell scripts ?
once it works, the scripts could be transferred to a FreeBSD Internet
machine, where the lists could be maintained by your scripts,
with people updating it in a similar fashion to majordomo@freebsd.org.

If your idea works well enough, then someone else may later recode the 
shell to C, (as happened with CVS I believe).

You might want to look at majordomo sources (but I don't have them,
& don't know if in C or sh or csh etc), try `archie majordomo` maybe ?

Julian S