Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mecc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!dicomed!mecc!sewilco From: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Let's talk about phone bills Message-ID: <380@mecc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 13:38:30 EST Article-I.D.: mecc.380 Posted: Thu Nov 7 13:38:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:31:11 EST References: <779@adobe.UUCP> <481@ki4pv.UUCP> Reply-To: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) Organization: MN Ed Comp Corp, St. Paul, MN Lines: 27 Keywords: mail news uucp link feed Summary: News links can be invisible to mail. In article <481@ki4pv.UUCP> tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) writes: >... >We have several mail-only links which do not handle news at all; the >news is all handled through one central system. I do not think it is >easy to make a news-only link which would reject mail. ... Easy. Make the uucp link name (in L.sys) be different than the news system name. In news "sys" file, to send to system "abc": abc:net,mod,na,usa,mn::uux - xyz!rnews Where uucp "L.sys" file has an entry to call a system "xyz". This assumes that your uucico will not complain about the remote name calling itself "abc" when trying to send files to "xyz". Strictly speaking, the news link could still be used for mail but people would have to know the path was called "xyz". News would only show the public system names, not the private link names. Of course, you could always alter rmail or uucico... -- Scot E. Wilcoxon Minn. Ed. Comp. Corp. circadia!mecc!sewilco 45 03 N / 93 15 W (612)481-3507 {ihnp4,mgnetp}!dicomed!mecc!sewilco