Aucbvax.1606 NET.news utzoo!duke!mhtsa!eagle!ucbvax!mark Wed Jun 10 18:52:20 1981 2nd try at posting... Mail failed. Letter returned to sender. Aeagle.115 NET.news eagle!jal Tue Jun 9 11:09:13 1981 Writing to ARPAnet digests One possible solution for submitting to ARPAnet digests from the usenet is to create a new newsgroup like 'ta.human-nets' (and ta.sf-lovers, etc.), where 'ta' means 'to-arpanet' - the opposite of fa.human-nets. Each system would set up it's .sys file so that it did NOT subscribe to 'ta.*' but would also arrange it so that 'ta.*' was sent to ucbvax. When the stuff got to berkeley it could be *magically* sent off to the appropriate place (note that each newsgroup in ta.* could have it's own destination - the lists won't all have to live on AI or MC exclusively). This way your submission would go directly to the digest (or mailing list) and would not appear on netnews until it was broadcast from MIT. It would slow down the distribution but would prevent all msgs originating on the usenet from appearing twice (the original and the MIT broadcast version). It would also allow for the digest editors to massage your text if they feel it needs to be done. Two points have to be taken care of: 1) Horton and company would have to hack up their netnews to support the new newgroups. At this point it is hard for me to believe that you folks at ucb are still running vanilla netnews anyway. 2) What about sites that don't talk to ucbvax directly ? Could netnews be made to allow for forwarding msgs in from one site and out to another WITHOUT posting the newsgroup locally ? Comments ? Discussion ? /jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.