On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Nick Metrowsky wrote:
> [...] I was
> just asked to see if there is a away for messages going to a majordomo
> mailing list can be sent to a newsgroup and vica-versa.
We've cobbled together a couple of perl scripts that we use for
local newsgroups/mailing lists. It's not pretty, and the scripts
are not well built.
The basic idea is to have the newsgroup "moderated", but have the
moderator email address go to two things. one to send to the
real list and the other to a script that automatically approves
the news post.
Eg. We have a moderated newsgroup
cran.comp.applic.patran and the moderator is
cran-comp-applic-patran@cranfield.ac.uk
That address has the following
cran-comp-applic-patran-request: "|/usr/info/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l cran
-comp-applic-patran"
cran-comp-applic-patran: c-c-a-patran-list, c-c-a-patran-post
c-c-a-patran-post: "|/usr/info/news/mail2news/post-approved cran.comp.applic.patran"
c-c-a-patran-list: "|/usr/info/majordomo/wrapper resend -l cran-comp-applic-patran cran-comp-applic-patran-outgoing"
post-approved is a very simple script that takes in a mail message,
adds in an Approved: and talks NNTP.
So, this gets things working in both directions with no looping. It
wouldn't work if we wanted the group to be functionally moderated.
We are using dnews, but there is nothing dnews specific about how this
is done.
-j
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