I use procmail to put mail from portmaster-users in it's own mailbox for
Pine to use. This can also be done with good Windows email clients like
Eudora. And don't some mail readers thread? To some point?
So to me it is just like a news group, except the messages don't auto
expire.. I have to delete them. I'm sure a cron script could clean up old
mail. Also the main reason is so it doesn't get cluttered in with my real
mail and my other high volume lists like inet-access (which has another
folder).
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, James McKenzie wrote:
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>
> I know this has been talked about before, but it would realy be nice
> to have this as a newsgroup instead.
>
> I'll even qualify that as saying I LOVE it much better AS a
> newsgroup. I have a private newsgroup on my news server that
> I automaticly post all the inbound email from the list too.
>
> It keeps my mailbox from getting clutterd.
> It provides a way to have threaded topics.
> Storing 14 days of email isn't then a problem, and very helpfull
> as a resource.
>
> It wouldn't be neccesary to have it as a 'public' news group, but
> it could be manages a couple of ways 'privately'.
>
> 1) a private feed to subscribed sites, they would be required
> not not redistribute the group to other outbound feeds from
> there site, and to restrict access to the group from the
> general public.
>
> 2) for sites that don't maintain a news server that they can
> easely do this with you can have a remote news server that
> these people could request privlaged access to the server for
> the sole perpose of reading this newsgroup.
>
> 3) an email-to-news gateway could be maintained for the few that
> have no access to news at all(if there are any).
>
> Another advantage would be that livingston could then have several
> newgroups, that breakout topics, like one for just announcements
> and what not.
>
> Just my two cents worth, and I'd be willing to back this up with an
> offer to use my news servers for this, and even help others to
> configure there news servers.
>
>
> Jim McKenzie
> mcs@isp.net
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