the group

Sun Oct 28 20:42:27 UTC 2001

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 at vix.com>
To: <nanog at 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 at 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.
>