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There are a large number of users and systems folks here reading internet 
mailing lists (with some significant redundancy) who'd prefer to read them 
as USENET news.  Ideally, a "followup" posting generated from within the 
newsreader would generate a message back to the internet mailing list.
I'm considering Rich $alz' package mail2news/news2mail (nee 'nrecnews' by
Erik Fair) for the job.

A paragraph from the README:

| With these programs and the right set of mail aliases and news sys and
| active file entries, it is possible to build any set of moderated,
| unmoderated, one-way, or bi-directional gateways between any set of news
| and mail groups and lists that your little heart desires.

Each piece seems to work well on its own -- I'm already reading sun-nets
and a few others as news, and for test purposes getting rec.food.recipes
as mail -- but I'm mighty afraid of what'll happen if I put the pieces 
together.  

How do I persuade news2mail to only ship articles back to the mailing list
when they are generated locally, as opposed to when they've been received
as mail and gatewayed into news via mail2news?  I'd be tempted to handle
this with Distribution: headers somehow, but since I don't want to pass
this stuff onto my usenet neighbors, I intended to make all the distribution
lines for the gatewayed mailing lists "local".

Installation Details:
+ Cnews patched to 18-Jan-1990 (yes, I suppose I'm a bit behind...)
+ SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun3/80 serving as a news and mail server for lots of
  Sun3 and Sun4 computers.

Any information or advice appreciated. 

      ^Deke Kassabian,   deke@ee.rochester.edu   or   ur-valhalla!deke
   Univ of Rochester, Dept of EE, Rochester, NY 14627     (+1 716-275-3106)