Re: feed mails to newsserver

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From: John J. Chew III
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:19

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In article <THOMAS.92Aug19183600@beat.aic.co.jp> thomas@aic.co.jp 
  (Thomas Johannsen) writes:
> I am kind of fed up with lots of junky mailing lists coming directly into my
> mailbox. Therefore, I intend to feed these mails into our newsserver (having
> local newsgroups for that purpose). Reading the stuff there would be more
> convenient for me and my colleagues as well.

All my incoming mail gets piped (via .forward or /etc/aliases) to a Perl
script which scans it and then decides based on criteria defined in a
(Perl) rc-file what to do with it - save it in an appropriately named
mailbox, pipe it to a command (that might post it to a local newsgroup)
or discard it.  If you or anyone else is interested in such a thing,
send me a message with the word 'mailee' in the Subject: and I'll send you 
you a copy.  I might be able to dig up a Perl script to munge messages
into news format, but that ought to be left as an exercise to the student. :-)

John
--
john j. chew, iii / department of mathematics / university of toronto
poslfit@utcs.utoronto.ca / poslfit@utorgpu.bitnet / jjchew@math.toronto.edu
-- 
john j. chew, iii / department of mathematics / university of toronto
poslfit@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca / poslfit@utorgpu.bitnet / jjchew@math.toronto.edu

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