Re: News Servers

[damaged justice <frogfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Adam (adam@morrison.iserv.net):
> Hey Bob,  please port the URL's for your news servers,  I'm pretty 
> interested in this.  What I have been doing is subscribing to lots of
> mail lists,  then sorting the incoming mail into folders.  Then when I
> have a problem with something I use Z-mail's search feature to look 
> for relevent messages,  sort of like searching Tech Support Bulletins.

I've been doing this sort of thing in reverse. Since I rely so much on a
remote shell account in addition to local apps and storage, I download the
more personal mail. I read news on the remote machine (I've always been a
fast reader, and I tend to skim even more these days on Usenet) and save
the occasional noteworthy post to a file in my ~Mail directory. ~Mail is
chmod'd to world executable, so all users on this system can read public
files in that directory, but can not list its contents (my private mail).
The result is that I, or anyone else, can start up a mail reader on one of
those public folders, treating the saved Usenet posts as mail.

Running my own feed (as opposed to simply sucking) is something I've only
done on (ugh) Windows NT, and of course too many of the details were hidden
for me to learn anything.

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