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jona@iscp.bellcore.com (Jon Alperin) writes:
: I did not see this in a FAQ, so here goes..apologies if I'm rehashing
: old stuff. 
: 
:  Is there a PD C-language package (AIX/SUNOS in specific, but I'll attempt
: to hack any other UNIX variant)that provides a gateway between a
: listserv mail server and NNTPD? I see that listserv has a "news"
: send/receive gateway, but it appears to require a piece of software
: running on my nntp server to take the incoming e-mail message and
: convert it into a format NNTP knows how to handle. (if it matters,
: C-News is running underneath).
: 

Get Newsgate (or is it mailgate?) out of the alt.sources archives.  There
are two versions, get the newer one.  Writing from memory, I believe that
Rich Salz wrote it.

I'm using it now with C-News, and it's working just fine, for both moderated
groups/mailing lists and unmoderated.  You put entries in your sys-file and
your /usr/lib/aliases file to drive the mail2news and news2mail programs.

It supports B and C News (INN as well, I believe),  sendmail and mmdf.  It 
doesn't need NNTP.

One other suggestion, particularly with bitnet listserv lists - if the
server involved is running 1.7c, the 'set header ietf' will make the
headers more internet-like and less bitnet-like (no mangling of reply-to,
sender, etc).  It's MUCH less painful.
--
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