From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Mon Jul 16 14:44:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 16 Jul 2001 21:44:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 15650 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2001 21:44:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Jul 2001 21:44:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 16 Jul 2001 21:44:00 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f6GLhxd27436 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:43:59 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:43:59 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Usenet access to mailing list In-Reply-To: <3B535DDC.70507@techie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Jeandr=E9 wrote: > >>Some mailing list programs (like > >>mailman) allow both Usenet and mailing list access to the same messages= , and > >>newsreader interfaces are normally more user friendly. > >>-- Jeandr=E9 > > > > True; I know bitnet lists were distributed through the bitnet.* hierarc= hy; > > I don't know how easy it would be to get a newsgroup in general to mirr= or > > a mailing list, but it might be worth you mentioning it to the mailing > > list as an idea... > > -- Nick NICHOLAS You'd have to create the USENET group and then have a dedicated (UNIX) host gating messages. The software for that is freely available. I believe its call mail2news. Depending on the name of the group you want to make, it could require putting it to vote. Creating a group for it in the alt hierarchy would be easy enough. However, I think a USENET group is completely inappropriate and just invites spam. - Jay Kominek