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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.announce:51 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2354 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!agate!usenet From: wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 386bsd Usenet News Archive via Email Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 11 May 1993 16:48:21 -0700 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 40 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <9305110233.AA11197@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (6.3 6/25/88) The 386bsd news archive on minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au is now available by email as well as by telnet. This allows those non-Internet users to access the news archive. The mail handler allows you to scan for egrep regular expressions in the Usenet news subject lines for 386bsd. Mail will be returned giving those subject lines that matched your regular expression. Using the article numbers you can then send further email and request certain articles to be mailed back to you. The mail handler performs the requests which are placed in the _body_ of your email; the subject line is ignored. The commands are: prog pattern - Search the 386bsd subject lines for the pattern grep pattern - Search the 386bsd subject lines for the pattern read number - Return the given article help - List the commands available help command - Give more details on the command quit - Ignore further lines Multiple commands can be sent in any email; however, the mail handler doesn't break returned mail into lumps of 64K or less, so please ensure you don't request too much at any one time. Email requests should be sent to bsdnews@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au The turnaround time should be around 20 minutes or less, depending on when the mail daemon is next cron'd. This was a simple modification to the bsdnews service running on minnie; consider it to be in alpha-test. Please let me know of any problems. Cheers, Warren Toomey wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu