Aihuxn.146 net.general,net.news,net.news.group utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxn!otto Sun Feb 21 22:45:36 1982 Re: school.xxx Is anyone working on making mailing lists just as efficient as newsgroups? One problem with using mailing lists for maintaining communications among those in a small group of people is the difficulty of keeping the lists on many machines in sync. I tried looking into setting up a program under my ID that would allow others to mail to me for automatic redistribution to a list I maintained, but never found a good way to do it. The beauty of using USENET it that members of affected groups can be on different machines and need do one or two simple things to be attached to the common group. If anyone has a program that can intercept mail addressed to me on a vanilla UNIX (without needing superprogrammer status) and automatically redirect it to others on a given list, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it. Otherwise, I would still like to set up USENET groups such as school.xxx for the reasons discussed before. George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill ihnss!ihuxi!otto ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.