From: zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Transferring mails to a newsgroup
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 13:21:11 CST
Reply-To: srcsip!tcscs!zeta
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:

> zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
> 
> -> eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:
> -> 
> -> > zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
> -> > 
> -> > -> In theory this should work.  
> -> >       ^^^^^^
> -> > Yes, but theory is not proving out in practice.
> -> > 
> -> In practice it does work (on my system).  
> -> 
> -> In theory it will work on other systems. :)
> 
> And in practice is does not work on my system.  Shall we write 
> "The Journal of Irreproducible Results?"
> 
> Since it does work on your system, would you mind posting the
> appropriate sections of your  ~\system\usenet and ~\system\aliases
> and any other files you have changed for mail-to-newsgroups to work.

OK.  Here goes.

----------------------------------USENET:---------------------------------

tcs.bbs.builders                        /keep=50 
                                        /mod="bbs@dragon.b23b.ingr.com"
tcs.cu-digest                           /keep=25 
                                        /mod="tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu" 
                                        /dir="e:\news\tcs\cu\digest"
tcs.informatik                          /keep=25 
                                        /mod="inform@grind.cheme.cmu.edu" 
                                        /dir="e:\news\tcs\inform"
tcs.msdos-announce                      /keep=50 
                                        /dir="e:\news\tcs\msdos\announce"
tcs.pascal                              /keep=50
tcs.phrack                              /keep=25 
                                        /mod="phracksub@stormking.com"
tcs.seminar                             /keep=50 
                                        /mod="navigate@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu"
tcs.tcs                                 
tcs.turbo-vision                        /keep=50 
                                        /mod="TURBVIS@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu"
                                        /dir="e:\news\tcs\turbo\vision" 

I have all the the mailing lists gated into USENET  tcs.????? groups on my 
system.  One way groups, or groups I've recently added that I'm not sure
of the address to submit articles to have no /mod setting.  I chose to
force waffle to treat '-' as a '\' for directory separation.  To make things
fit in 80 columns, I've put each /flag on its own line for each entry.  I
hope this is fairly straight forward.  If not, ask and I'll explain further.

----------------------------------ALIASES:-----------------------------------

tcs                             tcs1 tcs2
post-tcs                        tcs2
Friends                         tcs3
bbs                             tcs4
msdos                           tcs5
cud                             tcs6
pascal                          tcs7
Friends-Chat                    tcs8
inform                          tcs9
phrack                          tcs10
seminar                         tcs11
Turbo-Vision                    tcs12
[Aliases pointing to SYSADMIN deleted]
tcs1                            | post tcs.tcs
tcs2                            | e:\user\vms\vmail.exe
tcs3                            | post tcs.Friends
tcs4                            | post tcs.bbs.builders
tcs5                            | post tcs.msdos-announce
tcs6                            | post tcs.cu-digest
tcs7                            | post tcs.pascal
tcs8                            | post tcs.friends-chat
tcs9                            | post tcs.informatik
tcs10                           | post tcs.phrack
tcs11                           | post tcs.seminar
tcs12                           | post tcs.turbo-vision
ping                            | e:\user\vms\vmail.exe
mail-server                     | e:\user\vms\vmail.exe
archive-server                  | e:\user\vms\vmail.exe

A lot of this is unneeded, and I'll probably make it more efficient later.
example...  bbs     aliased to      tcs4      aliased to      |post tcs.bbs...
could be... bbs     aliased to      |post tcs.bbs....
I chose to set them up this way so I could do more if I wanted to.  For
example, tcs  aliased to     tcs1 and tcs2, where tcs1 is the address that
posts to the group tcs.tcs and tcs2 runs the mail-server, and then there
is post-tcs going to tcs2.  I don't remember the exact reason I had this,
I think it was an experiment I was wrking on for the mailing list I ran 
off this system as well...  

I used things this way so I could easily redirect things if i wanted to,
for instance if I want to see informatik in my mailbox, I just add
Zeta to the alias list for inform.  Like I said..this is a lot of unneeded
gibberish in the aliases file (but it works, so I haven't changed it) :)


Well this is my set up from USENET and ALIASES.  To make everything work, 
I added each of the mailing list groups to my JOIN file, and read them
when I go N or RN.  To send an article or to reply, I simply Follow or Post,
and answer Yes to mail to the moderator (which I have set up as the mailing
list address).

I also use the EDIT.COM file that came with MS DOS 5 as my local terminal
editor.  97% of the time there is not any problems.

Greg

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