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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Interfacing netnews and mail software
Message-ID: <575@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 16:18:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.575
Posted: Thu Jul 26 16:18:18 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 21:40:42 EDT
Organization: UCLA CS Dept.
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Several people here in the UCLA CS Dep't have asked whether we could
set up a mail interface to the netnews stuff.  That is, a user would
be able to post a message to one or more newsgroups by sending mail
to one or more magic addresses (sort of how like some places which run
the Berkeley "msgs" software let you send mail to "msgs").

The two main reasons this idea has come up are:

(1) People around here are very used to our locally developed mail-
    sending program.

(2) People around here do NOT seem to like the "postnews" interface
    at all.

I would like to know whether anyone has done this kind of thing already,
and if so, what kind of address format you have used.  Ideas which I
have thought of include:

(1) Mailing to the newsgroup name itself:

	    To:  net.general, net.flame, net.games.video

(2) Setting up something that looks like an imaginary ARPANET host
    (a format which people here are used to, since we're on the
    ARPANET):

	    To:  net.general@USENET, net.flame@USENET,
		 net.games.video@USENET

I currently tend somewhat toward the "...@USENET" approach, but I am
willing to adopt something better if there is one.

Please, no flames of the form "what's wrong with postnews?" or "anything
of that type is a bletcherous kludge!" or "mail is mail, and news is
news, and never the twain shall meet".

-- Rich Wales
	wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA
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