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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...
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Scot E. Wilcoxon  Minn. Ed. Comp. Corp.         circadia!mecc!sewilco
45 03 N / 93 15 W   (612)481-3507 {ihnp4,mgnetp}!dicomed!mecc!sewilco