From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 13:14: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7AF37B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:14:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from kirk.dlee.org (pool-138-88-115-98.res.east.verizon.net [138.88.115.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE8243EA9 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:13:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.dlee.org) Received: from kirk.dlee.org (dgl@localhost.dlee.org [127.0.0.1]) by kirk.dlee.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAQLDoqc020600; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:13:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.dlee.org) Received: (from dgl@localhost) by kirk.dlee.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gAQLDokt020599; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:13:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgl) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:13:50 -0500 From: Doug Lee To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail to News software suggestions? Message-ID: <20021126211349.GE55241@kirk.dlee.org> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , Vivek Khera , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021123184212.GI55241@kirk.dlee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: Bartimaeus Group Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:09:16PM -0800, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "DL" == Doug Lee writes: > > DL> I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to > DL> store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a > DL> system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in "newsgroups" > DL> I create for them on this machine. I use procmail, so it would be > > Download and read the commentary in > > http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/V/VK/VKHERA/mail2news-1.14 > > I use this gateway to read the freebsd lists, and various other high > volume lists that a few of us read here. I keep archives for 6 > months, but that's all configured via my INN installation. I'll plan to check that out, as well as www.gmane.org, which was also suggested here, and nntpcache, which looks like a way to speed up my news access while allowing me to merge this specialized hierarchy with standard newsgroups without even needing to store local article trees. Thanks, all, for the valuable input. -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "This page is best viewed with your monitor switched on." --from Antiword web site (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message