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Subject:Re: TECHWR-L available as newsgroup???? From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 14 Nov 1994 11:00:03 -0800
Glen Accardo said:
> At USL, our network administrator "gatewayed" many mailing lists to
> newsgroups. Since many people were subscribed to certain lists, newsgroups
> allowed us to have ONE copy of each message for EVERYONE to read. USL
> subscribed, and I think still subscribes, to techwr-l. All the mail sent
> to a special account at USL from techwr-l gets shovelled into bit.techwrl.
What you describe is a redistribution list, not a newsgroup list. They
look much the same on most systems that run redistribution lists. The
name for the newsgroup is bit.listserv.techwr-l.
