Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group
From: [email-masked] (Shankar Unni)

22 Jan 1997 10:31:03 -0800
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Carl J R Johansson said:

> The ideal solution would maybe be to automatically forward the messages
> to a local (again, as opposed to global) newsgroup and vice versa while
> maintaining the mailing list. That should keep everyone happy, but I don't
> know if it's practical.

Certainly it's practical. A great many mailing lists are mirrored on
newsgroups - the classic examples being the gnu mailing lists, reflected
in the gnu.* newsgroup heirarchy. It should be a simple matter to borrow
their framework..
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Shankar Unni                                  [email-masked]
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