🚀 go-pugleaf

Since this group seems well underway, and the access has begun to be a problem
for NON-Usenet sites, it seems appropriate to post some suggested ways to
provide these sites with the ability to receive articles via e-mail.  Here,
then, are my suggestions:

	1).  For OUTBOUND copying (gateway'ing) a non-Usenet site with all
	articles posted to this group, said non-Usenet sites (fooo) should
	contact the SA's at adjacent (Usenet) sites, and request that the SA's
	add the following entry to their 'sys' file:  

fooo:world,na,usa,ca,la,!ca.all,!la.all,comp.mail.mush::mail logname@fooo
^^^^       ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^  ^^^^^^  ^^^^^^                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
|          |  |   |  |   |       |                           |
|          |  |   |  |   |       |                           |
1          2  3   4  5   6       7                           8

1-  The name of the non-Usenet site who wishes to be copied.

2-  Continent part of sys file entries.  Here in North America (na), we have
    to make sure that we pass news that is grouped for distribution in 
    North America.

3-  Country.  Same idea as (2) above.

4-  State.  The only thing is that there is both statewide distribution,
    which is what field 4 here refers to, but there is also a seperate
    heirarchy of news groups such as 'ca.wanted', etc.  Because of this,
    it is necessary to PASS through 'ca' distribution, but to SUPPRESS
    the 'ca.foo' heirarchy.

5-  Local.  Same ideas as (4) above.

6-  Suppress state heirarchy; see (4) above.

7-  Suppress local heirarchy; see (4) above.

8-  Email address of the person to send the 'comp.mail.mush' stuff.


	This is VERY EASY for any usenet site to accomplish.  Furthermore,
if MIT.EDU (the site which presently does all the forwarding) wanted to,
they could simply create the entry to email to the list, and then all
the distribution could continue from there.  NO PROBLEM.


	2).  Gatewaying INBOUND mush-users stuff to Usenet.  This one is a
bit trickier, but still no big deal.  There is a standard utility which
comes with the B-news distribution called "recnews", which takes inbound
mail (usually sent to an alias) and packs it up into an article, and posts
it to a group.  I would once again recommend that garp.MIT.EDU be the
clearing point for this, although if folks are going to go to more local
Usenet sites for the OUTBOUND forwarding, it might be more logical to
have them also handle the INBOUND.  If the site getting the INBOUND stuff
has sendmail, it's VERY simple.


	If anybody has any comments, or suggestions, please:

		1).  If it is non-general, email me directly.

		2).  If it is a general question or comment, please post it
		to comp.mail.mush, so that it can get the benefit of a
		whole bunch of folks out there knowing about it.



					Mike Levin


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