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From: jeremy@jeremy.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum)
Newsgroups: news.software.notes,news.software.b
Subject: Structured group discussiong + reading news via nntp
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Date: 25 Sep 89 17:15:59 GMT
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We would like to set up an integrated facility for carrying on
local structured discussions, using a netnews/notes-like structure,
and to read (and write) external netnews via nntp.  There are a number
of different machines that people use, including suns and sgi's.  We
would like to have one "master" program/interface to do both, so that
the only difference between the external and the local newsgroups is
the distribution.  We don't control the nntp server, BTW.  What is a reasonable
way to do this, such that all the local people can read all of the local
postings as well as all the external postings.  We are currently using a
mixture of rrn and gnus for news reading.  We are considering notes, 
some extension of gnus so that it would read a local spool directory if
it couldn't find a group via nntp, and any other (more) reasonable 
alternatives.

Any ideas?  What do you do?

Thanks,

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Jeremy Nussbaum
jeremy@jeremy.prime.com, ...!harvard!prmcad!jeremy
Prime Computer
2 Crosby Drive MS 16-2 
Bedford, Ma. 01730
(617)275-1800 x6745