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- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: Re: Receive USENET feed by e-mail
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.201527.18110@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 20:15:27 GMT
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- In article <*> bedaj00@DMI.USherb.CA (JOEL BEDARD) writes:
- >I'm searching a way to receive an USENET conference like : rec.games.chess
- >in my e-mail account. Can someone help me?
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- You've just asked "standard USENET question number 44".
- The answer is contained in this excerpt of the 'FAQ' file.
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- From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
- Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers
- Subject: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Date: 4 Sep 92 03:52:07 GMT
- Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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- Archive-name: usenet-faq/part1
- Last-change: 19 Jul 1992 by mvac23!thomas@udel.edu (Thomas Lapp)
- Original-author: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
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- 44. Is it possible to read Usenet newsgroups via electronic mail?
-
- Most Usenet newsgroups do not correspond to any mailing list, so
- the conventional answer to this question is "no" for most groups.
- However, there are some newsgroups that are gatewayed to mailing lists.
- For a list of them, see the "List of Active Newsgroups"
- posting in news.announce.newusers.
-
- If you know a Usenet site-administrator who is willing to act as a
- personal gateway for you, you might be able to get him/her to set
- up his/her system to forward messages from individual newsgroups
- to you via E-mail. However, most administrators don't like to do this
- because it adds to the outgoing traffic from their site, so don't
- post messages to the net saying, "Hey, is there someone willing
- to gateway newsgroups to me?"
-
- /MK
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