filePro Printing over a Satellite

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
>At about Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:52:42PM -0500,
>J. P. Radley blabbed on about:
>> Mark Luljak propounded (on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:02:36PM -0500):
>> | 
>> | Hmmm.  And they really haven't updated my favourite newsreader (slrn) in
>> | like ages.  Pity, as there are changes I'd like to see.  :)  It's pretty
>> | much the mutt of news reading.  Actually, I'd -love- to see a newsmutt, the
>> | mail one is so good.
>> 
>> What's the big deal?  My script to translate incoming newsgroup messages
>> into mail is a few dozen lines -- then I have the messages dealt with by
>> mutt.  Mailed replies are fed back into the news spool by an equally compact
>> script.
>
>You run your own news feed though, do you not?  I don't.  I use IgLou's
>news feed, on their shell server.
>
>Now, I -could- cobble something together to do a specific conversion of the
>newsgroups I want, sure.  Not a problem.  Of course, it's going to eat my
>disk quota alive with 1000+ messages a weekend in the ps2 newsgroup
>alone...

The Mailman mailing list manager handles e-mail news gateways with nothing
more than specifying the news server, and telling it which ways to gate the
messages (e.g. from the news group to the mailing list, and back to the
group from the list).  The only downside I've see to this is that the news
gateway doesn't go through my perl filter before going to the list, and
won't until I've figured out enough python to add my filter to the
pipeline.

Bill
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