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Grex Internet Item 86: Usenet by mail
Entered by peacefrg on Wed May 3 18:10:06 UTC 1995:

I have no USENET access through a fast connection, and was wondering...
Is there a way to have a whole group mailed to you daily?
I like to download things off of the binary newsgroups and wondered if
they could be mailed to me as they are posted?
I know that you can ftp, whois, telnet, www, all by e-mail.
But I have never seen one for usenet.

5 responses total.

#1 of 5 by scg on Thu May 4 01:46:26 1995:

I don't think your system administrator would be too happy about that.

#2 of 5 by remmers on Thu May 4 10:29:27 1995:

Especially if the system on which you're receiving the mail is a low-
bandwidth one like Grex.  Binaries postings are huge.

On the other hand, getting newsgroups by mail would be reasonable for
a low-volume group.  Seems like there should be a way to do it.

#3 of 5 by curby on Thu May 4 11:01:04 1995:

Have a cronjob open the news socket then get all the articles that you
already do not have.  Sounds easy enough.  (Though I know that i would
have problems doing it! <grin>)

#4 of 5 by peacefrg on Fri May 5 13:35:04 1995:

IOs there a way just to get the binaries and not all the other junk?
There has to be some way for me to get usenet. This is driving me nuts.

#5 of 5 by awijaya on Fri Aug 22 20:28:37 1997:

Hello You can get Usenet by e-mail from Reference.com.
You must send e-mail using HELP in subhect/body
to email-inquiries@reference.com Regards (AW)

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