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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:36:09 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why not a news server?
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:36:23PM -0600, James Potts (Arek) wrote:
>>I'd suggest that you gateway the cygwin mailing list into news, and
>>vice versa.  That would probably be optimum.
>
>Great idea, but it has to be done right - you can't just forward a raw
>news message to the mailing list.  Some news/e-mail clients (Outlook
>Express, for example) will try to open it as a news message, which
>messes things up.

I assume that anyone who does this will use one of the programs available
for handling this type of thing.

cgf

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