Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 17:11:45 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: saholmes AT crl DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Newsgroup?

Inquiring minds (Steve Holmes <saholmes AT crl DOT com>) want to know:

   If setting up a news group is so much trouble, then I can put up with
   the high volume of e-mail comming into my inbox.  I was wondering
   though: How could I possibly take my inbox and sort out all the djgpp
   mail and "toss" it into a temporary newsgroup to use with yarn on
   my pc and dump any replies gback to the list as e-mail.  The main
   object here would be to get it into a newsgroup so that threads can
   be followed more easily and I can sort through my personal mail
   much easier that way.  Any ideas?

(1) If you have a good mailer on a Unix system, then you can use the
"procmail" solution suggested by another poster.  Another good system,
which comes with the well-known Elm mail shell, is called "filter".

(2) From your return address and the lack of excessive header garbage,
I suspect you have a plain vanilla, or perhaps butterscotch, PC based
mail system.  It has been rumored that someone was porting Elm to
DJGPP, but there are no confirmed sightings of a working system.
Since filter is a separate program, it might be possible to get it
working separately if you're into that kind of thing.  I don't know
how hard it would be.  Filter is presumably a Unix filter (stdin to
stdout, with obviously some fiddling to get the output into different
files); this kind of thing is usually fairly straightforward.  You can
get it at world.std.com (/pub/mail/elm or something like that) and
gatekeeper.dec.com (/pub/comp.unix.sources/... or something) according
to Archie.

(3) I'm no expert, but I think that mail and news are basically the
same format.  I know GNUs used to do it that way, saving both in Babyl
format.  Just a couple of key headers (in particular To: and
Newsgroups:) differentiate them (with To: taking precedence).  So you
can go through your mail file, do a quick bunch of saves to DJGPP,
then point yarn at the DJGPP file.  Dunno yarn, so can't tell you how
to do that.

(4) As for replying, any responsible newsreader permits you to do f or
F to followup to the newsgroup, OR r or R to reply to the sender by
email.  Again, dunno yarn, but I betcha if you RTFM you'll find that
option.  Whether it's configured properly if you're an offline
newsreader, I don't know.

good luck.

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