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54 lines
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9">
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<TITLE>Mail2News Mini-Howto: Introduction</TITLE>
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<LINK HREF="Mail2News-3.html" REL=next>
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<LINK HREF="Mail2News-1.html" REL=previous>
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<LINK HREF="Mail2News.html#toc2" REL=contents>
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<A HREF="Mail2News-3.html">Next</A>
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<A HREF="Mail2News.html#toc2">Contents</A>
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<HR>
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<H2><A NAME="s2">2. Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>Why would you want to post mailing list traffic to local news groups?
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<P>Should more than one user subscribe to the same mailing list, there is
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going to be traffic duplication. By subscribing the site to a list
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(if this is allowed by the list owner) and 'gating' the email traffic
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to the local news server, it is possible to make mailing lists
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accessible to all site users, or, using the security features of
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'innd', to limit the access to certain users. Such a site
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subscription (particularly if there are a number of high traffic
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lists) can make worthwhile savings in bandwidth usage.
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<P>Also, reading list traffic via a newsreader offers the advantages of
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threading and scoring/killfiles which tend not to be available in all
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mailreaders. And, of course, it keeps your inbox free free for
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possibly more urgent, personal email.
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<P>This mini-HOWTO describes setting up the 'mail2news' script to
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accomplish this.
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 Finding mail2news</A>
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</H2>
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<P>You can download the mail2news package including the script and
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this HOWTO and other documentation from
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<HR>
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<PRE>
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http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/code/mail2news/
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</PRE>
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<HR>
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