From: CSBVAX::CSBVAX::MRGATE::"SMTP::CRVAX.SRI.COM::RELAY-INFO-VAX" 6-FEB-1989 22:29 To: MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART" Subj: Re: ANU NEWS & Bitnet Received: From KL.SRI.COM by CRVAX.SRI.COM with TCP; Mon, 6 FEB 89 18:28:01 PDT Received: from ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Mon, 6 Feb 89 18:02:29 PST Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.61/1.33) id AA26278; Mon, 6 Feb 89 17:49:23 -0800 Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for info-vax@kl.sri.com (info-vax@kl.sri.com) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) Date: 7 Feb 89 01:22:26 GMT From: njin!limonce@rutgers.edu (Tom Limoncelli) Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Subject: Re: ANU NEWS & Bitnet Message-Id: References: , Sender: info-vax-request@kl.sri.com To: info-vax@kl.sri.com Tim Russell (CONSLT32@UNOMA1.Bitnet) wrote to me with the following suggestion. It looks like it's what I was looking for. I'll post it here because I feel it could be very helpful to others. >Hi Tom, > > I've been working on the same thing, and have set up what I think is the >most elegant and easy solution available... Here are the steps: > > 1) Set up a newsgroup for the list in NEWS, i.e. 'bitnet.jnet-l'. > > 2) On an account with SYSNAM privs, use the command > > SET FORWARD/USER=JNET-L NEWSMGR > > to create a non-existant user called JNET-L and forward its mail to > NEWSMGR. Naturally, replace the JNET-L with any satisfactory alias > that you want to use, and NEWSMGR with whatever the account of your > news administrator is. > > 3) Using the Bitnet CONTACT account for your node, send the command > > FOR JNET-L SUBSCRIBE JNET-L News Account > > to the appropriate LISTSERV. Substitute whatever list you want for > the JNET-L and whatever you want it to be called by the LISTSERV for > "News Account" above. > > 4) In your NEWSADD.COM procedure, insert the following lines: > > $! Get Bitnet mail and add into NEWS > $ mail > select newmail > select/to=jnet-l ] > extract/all jnet-l.batch |---- Repeat for each list > delete/all ] > purge > exit > $ if f$search("jnet-l.batch") .nes. "" then - ] Repeat for > _$ news add jnet-l.batch /defnewsgroup=bitnet.jnet-l ] each list > > 5) Set the Bitnet address you would want to send to to post a message > as the moderator of the group, or allow normal posting to the > group and add an entry for the group in the NEWS_POST_CC file. > If you use the first method, you'll need to send a message to > the LISTSERV telling it to send you a copy of your postings, > because it won't normally. I believe it's something like > SET MSGACK MAIL. The subscription file you receive when you > subscribe to the list tells. > > > Well, this seems like the best solution to me, although as you may have >noticed, it's only workable on VMS 5.0. In 4.7 you would probably have to >create a real user for each list and a seperate mail file. Then in MAIL >you would do a SET FILE to each of those files instead of the SELECT/TO >above. > > Feel free to post this to the net if you like it... Ok. > >---------------------------------+------------------------------------------- > Tim Russell, Computer Operator | Internet: russell%zeus@fergvax.unl.edu > Campus Computing | Bitnet: russell@unoma1 > University of Nebraska at Omaha | UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!fritz >---------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Yes, the VAX runs VMS 5.0-2 so this procedure will be no problem. I will be writing up a complete guide on how to do this once I get it working (so I can list any trouble spots... if there are any). -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard ACM Regional Contest winner! See you at Disclaim the nationals in Louisville, KY on Feb 21-23! er.