[43927] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wojtek Zlobicki)
Sun Oct 28 15:42:27 2001
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From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz@idirect.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:42:27 -0500
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I'd love to see a Usenet version of this group. One of the groups I
frequent (the groupstudy cert lists), has the ability to post two way via
mail/web/nntp. I really like the NNTP format, keeps a lot of mail off my HD
and makes it much easier to follow old threads.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: the group
>
> > I wouldn't consider gatewaying nanog into usenet land (even one way) to
be
> > the world most constructive exercise...
>
> I do. I read NANOG in a private local newsgroup. It only works
one-way --
> to post, I have to send mail to nanog@merit.edu and so my address has to
be
> entered on the nanog-post list. KILL files are wonderful. /etc/aliases
says:
>
> local-mail-net-nanog: |"/news/local/mailpost -d local
local.mail.net.nanog"
>
> i've put a copy of "mailpost" at http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailpost.txt.
it's
> really a perl script, 324 lines long, written by me back in 1992 or so.
>
