ML>> ET> Yes, I just sent out about a month's worth of stuff
ML>> ET> in one day.  I've been posting infrequently lately,
ML>> ET> often two-three weeks in between.

ML>>why not an automated process that does the posts when
ML>>ever they arrive? the above is why the spacebase echos
ML>>have fallen by the wayside ;-(

 ET> I don't mean this to be negative - just a statement of fact

understood...

 ET> ... If I had the time to find or write such a process,
 ET> I'd have the time to do the posts manually more frequently.
 ET> It would certainly be nice to have such a system.  If anyone
 ET> wants to develop one for me, I'd be more than happy to use
 ET> it.

seems to me that this was done years ago... fredgate (IIRC) and GIGO can
both do this... essentially, you set up a "fake" user that is
signed up for the lists and then GIGO takes the inbound email and converts
it into echomail and posts it in the echo... you can make it so that its
inbound from the net and thus not take a chance on spewing stuff back to
the internet... i'm currently working on getting some of the OS/2 lists
gated before taking them over... i've actually done several like this... my
system also does the postings in the WHITEHOUSE echo and that's a lot
different... that's done by mining web pages from the whitehouse.gov site
and converting them to text... the only other thing that's needed to
facilitate this is to have a domain and SMTP reciever or MX on another
system so that if your system is not available when they send the email,
it'll be waiting for your system to gather...

i know the above is fairly short and possibly not too obvious... a lot of
these solutiong also depend on what OS you are running and how you are
doing this stuff... mine's all being done by OS/2 and numerous script
files... the GIGO gating and such is all in one... there's even a
"free" key available now days... all one needs is a SMTP reciever
that dumps the inbound stuff into .BAG files...

don't know where would be a better place to discuss this... don't want to
get the moderator upset...

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