From: shankar@chromatic.com (Shankar Unni) Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group 22 Jan 1997 10:31:03 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701221638.IAA19103.cygnus.gnu-win32@hatchet.chromatic.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: cjjohans@cc.helsinki.fi (Carl J R Johansson) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Carl J R Johansson" at Jan 21, 97 10:45:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Carl J R Johansson said: > The ideal solution would maybe be to automatically forward the messages > to a local (again, as opposed to global) newsgroup and vice versa while > maintaining the mailing list. That should keep everyone happy, but I don't > know if it's practical. Certainly it's practical. A great many mailing lists are mirrored on newsgroups - the classic examples being the gnu mailing lists, reflected in the gnu.* newsgroup heirarchy. It should be a simple matter to borrow their framework.. -- Shankar Unni shankar@chromatic.com Chromatic Research (408) 752-9488 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".