Actually, I'm here (didn't know Beartooth was going to post to this
list).
Let me be more specific about what I need: I need an email->usenet
gateway.... not Internet Connection sharing.
I am the moderator for a Usenet group that has a Listserv
(www.lsoft.com) list mirror.
We have had another site acting as the 'gateway' for us, but they appear
to have suddenly quit working. I have a box running Fedora (fc1), so I
can I try to set this up on my own.
What happens:
The particular newsgroup is moderated, set such that the "post
submission
address" is the Listserv list.
The Listserv list is set to Send= Editor.
The newsserver gateway is a subscribed to the Listserv list.
When a post comes in (from either the email subscribers or a Usenet
reader - it doesn't matter), it is first sent to the Editor to approve.
Assuming the post is acceptable, the Editor sends it back to the List
(using the equivelant of a pine/elm "bounce"), which then sends it to
all of the email subscribers (remember, one of which is not a real
person, but rather the gateway server).
* Listserv automatically adds the Newsgroups: tag to the header.
This is a feature Listserv has already...
When the gateway server receives it, it posts the message to the group
specificed in the header, adding the required Approved:.
Walla - the post is gatewayed to Usenet.
Fwiw, I have looked at mail2news (and have it installed). What I am not
sure of is how to get INN running on my Fedora box. I am also not sure
how to get my upstream news feed will accept posts from my box.
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