Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: mail to news Message-ID: <552@hqda-ai.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 87 05:18:37 GMT References: <38fe15a9.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM> Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon Lines: 17 Keywords: mail news Summary: Use recnews instead of inews. In article <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM>, sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) writes: > Set up an alias which will direct your mail into the > inews program like this: > > cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/inews -n honeywell.cad.parts -h" This will usually work, but can cause some problems with header lines. The alias should be: cad-parts: |/usr/lib/news/recnews honeywell.cad.parts Recnews strips those headers that do not belong in a news article, then hands the article off to inews. -- David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900 UUCP: *!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: ai01@hios-pent.arpa