From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!rlgvax!guy
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: mailing labels
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1068
Posted: Sat Feb 19 02:42:42 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 09:58:07 1983


1) As another news article I submitted said, the CAR-RT SORT merely indicates
that the bulk mailer sorted the articles in order to save the Postal Cervix
some time and themselves some money.  (The mailing list databases probably
have a carrier route code in them, which is computed when the record is
put into the database, and the programs do the sorting.)

2) There is a semi-intelligent interface to "news"; in fact there are
several of them, called "ed", "vi", "ned", "ev", etc.  Just build a file
(this is coming from "/tmp/news", for all you temporary-file-name mavens
out there), and say "mail -i ... -n net.xxx