Re: News as mail: how?

[Philippe Moutarlier <philippe kscable com>]

I don't know if it is what you want (more the other way around) , but I am using gnus for both email and news. Works great for me (might not be the simplest thing to set up, though).

Philippe

José Romildo Malaquias <romildo urano iceb ufop br> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:53:30PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> > * Jos? Romildo Malaquias (romildo urano iceb ufop br) wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to have usenet news access by normal email?
> > > I would like to receive news articles as email messages
> > > and I would like to archive them. Is there a solution to this?
> > > My connection to the Internet is not too fast so sometimes
> > > its painful to read news from deja (via Web).
> > > 
> > > Any hints?
> > 
> > Yes. There are a few alternatives, the one I use is a lightweight,
> > simply option called fetchnews. Can't remember where I got it,
> > but it's on freshmeat (sig). It's actually written in perl =)
> > 
> > You simply run it like fetchmail and it drops usenet messages into the
> > local spool. I then use procmail to archive them in appropriate
> > folders.
> > 
> > It's nice and easy to use. I have a .fetchnewsrc in my home directory
> > containing:
> > 
> > server my.isp.news.server
> > delivery smtp myusername
> > 
> > And you create blank files in ~/.fetchnews named with the newsgroups
> > you want to keep up to date with:
> > 
> > $ ls ~/.fetchnews
> > alt.humor.best-of-usenet
> > 
> > That's it. It'll download new messages each time it's run.
> > 
> > Tom.
> > -- 
> 
> And is it capable of posting news?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Romildo
> -- 
> Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <romildo iceb ufop br>
> Departamento de Computação
> Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
> Brasil
> 
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