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From: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: pumping mail into local newsgroup
Message-ID: <637@neuro1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 18:07:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 18:07:51 1985
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Organization: Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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Summary: set up local groups to dump the mailing list stuff into

If you get stuff from some mailing list and want to make it available on
the local machine, create a LOCAL group for it.

The steps are simple:

1. Make a local group prefix (most sites use local) and add it to YOUR MACHINE's
listing in your sysfile.
	EXAMPLE: here is the line for neuro1 (my system)
neuro1:na,mod,tx,houston,baylor,ut,net,fa,to.neuro1,local:B:
                                                    ^^^^^ 
local is the prefix for groups that are not sent anywhere else. This prefix
should NOT appear in any other listing in the sys file (or news will distribute it).

2. Create the local groups. Issue the "inews -C local.groupname" as the news
super-user. Change "groupname" to the name you want to call the list on your
machine. This will create the group itself and allow people to read and post to
it (NOTE: Postings will not leave the machine, but a local discussion might
start as a result of an article.)

3. Add the group to the "localgroups" file in the news directory (usually
/usr/lib/news). 

4. Now, when you receive an item from your mailing list, you can post it
the the local group for all to read.

Hope this is helpful.



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