Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!access!edm!rroot From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Sending 'netnews' via 'email' Summary: Here's a 'sys' line.. Message-ID: <3206@edm.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 05:54:26 GMT References: <229@magnus.UUCP> Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB. Lines: 29 In article <229@magnus.UUCP>, news@magnus.UUCP (magnus NEWS ADMIN) writes: > > I am looking for something which will allow me to (selectively) feed netnews > groups from my big system as 'email' to other sites who are not set up for > news, just mail. I envision the following: > Mike Levin The following sys lines work just fine... The way they are set up, uucp will directly read the news article in /usr/spool/news/..... This saves a bit of disk space in the /usr/spool/uucp directory. All of this is actually documented in the usenet docs you get with the news source.. (I just can't remember exactly where at the moment) Note that the mailing is done on the next remote system out, but the From line is OK since this system's name is added to the fine when it is received. _____________ brad:na,ab,edm,can,net,us,usa,world,,comp.sys.amiga,to.mailnet,to.neyessa:U:uux neyessa!mail brad '<' %s The following line does a normal mail run (the message shows up in the /usr/spool/uucp directory). I use it for low-volume stuff.. The mail task is run on the local system. _____________ usrgrp:na,ab,edm,net,us,usa,world,,to.mailnet,edm.all,ab.all::/bin/mail acsedm!hk ggc0!root neyessa!kelly rroot -- ------------- Stephen Samuel {ihnp4,ubc-vision,vax135}!alberta!edm!steve or userzxcv@uofamts.bitnet