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Subj:	Re: mailing lists as local newsgroups

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From: munnari!csc0.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET
Subject: Re: mailing lists as local newsgroups
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Terry Poot enquires:

>     Has anyone bi-directionally gatewayed a mailling list into a local
>     newsgroup? I'd like to subscribe to several mailling lists that are
>     not also newsgroups, but I'd like to use news to read and manage them.
>     I think I know how to do it, but if someone else has, I'd just as soon
>     not re-invent the wheel.

His suggestion is basically correct BUT the problem lies in setting the local
newsgroup as moderated... when a local user posts into this local newsgroup and
also to another moderated newsgroup the item will be posted to the moderator of
the alphabetically first newsgroup - which is not the desired behaviour.

I will be placing NEWS V5.9 on anonynous ftp on 130.56.1.29 (csc2.anu.oz.au)
in the next day or two. This version has support for mailing lists in the form:
"SET NEWSGROUP/MAIL" which overcomes this PROBLEM

geoff huston