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- From: jjchew@math.toronto.edu (John J. Chew III)
- Subject: Re: feed mails to newsserver
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.201945.15754@math.toronto.edu>
- Organization: The Poslfit Committee
- References: <THOMAS.92Aug19183600@beat.aic.co.jp>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:19:45 GMT
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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
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- 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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