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1.1     ! root        1: From: Thomas Scott Christiansen <[email protected]>
        !             2: 
        !             3: I noticed that in the mh.6 tar file on huey, you have some things on using
        !             4: MH for netnews.  I thought you would like the whole kit, so here it is:
        !             5: 
        !             6: ===========================================================================
        !             7:                     Using MH on Netnews and System MSGS
        !             8: 
        !             9: First look at all the directories in /usr/spool/news.  Then, assuming
        !            10: that your MH directory is ~/Mail, do something like the following:
        !            11: 
        !            12:        % ln -s /usr/spool/news/{net,fa,mod} ~/Mail
        !            13: 
        !            14: You may now reference read-only folders named (for example +net/jokes
        !            15: and +mod/unix.   
        !            16:        
        !            17: Linking /usr/msgs will allow you to read msgs in a similar manner, 
        !            18: but that you should have your system administrator make /usr/msgs
        !            19: perms 775 and the msgs program setgid the group on the msgs dir.
        !            20: Usually the perms are 777, which means this wouldn't be a read-only
        !            21: folder.
        !            22: 
        !            23:                                   WARNINGS
        !            24: 
        !            25: If your version of MH has a limit on message numbers (as in max 2000
        !            26: msgs) then you will not be able to read folders with highest message
        !            27: numbers higher than this without modifying the MH source code.
        !            28: 
        !            29: Refiling causes copies to be made of messages, rather than actually moving
        !            30: them, since these are read-only folders.
        !            31: 
        !            32: 
        !            33:                       Doing followups to news articles
        !            34: 
        !            35: In order to do followups to news articles, you should get your
        !            36: local mail administrator to do the following things on your
        !            37: system.  It all assumes that you have used /usr/local/lib/mh 
        !            38: as your MH lib directory.   
        !            39: 
        !            40: 
        !            41: First create an alias like this:
        !            42: 
        !            43:        followup:        "|/usr/local/lib/mh/followup"
        !            44: 
        !            45: This file should look like this and be executable:
        !            46: 
        !            47:        #!/bin/sh
        !            48:        sed -f /usr/local/lib/mh/followup.sed | /usr/lib/news/inews -h
        !            49: 
        !            50: The sed script should look like this:
        !            51: 
        !            52:        1,/^$/{
        !            53:        /^From /d
        !            54:        /^To:/d
        !            55:        /^Received:/d
        !            56:        /^Message-Id:/d
        !            57:        /^Date:/d
        !            58:        }
        !            59: 
        !            60: 
        !            61: Then create a link to repl called flup, and add the following line
        !            62: to your mh_profile:
        !            63: 
        !            64:        flup:   -nocc all -form flupcomps
        !            65: 
        !            66: where flupcomps is the following  file (located in ~/Mail)
        !            67: 
        !            68:        To: followup
        !            69:        Subject: Re: %<{subject}%subject%|Orphaned response%>
        !            70:        %<{followup-to}Newsgroups: %followup-to%|%<{newsgroups}Newgroups: %newsgroups%>%>
        !            71:        %<{message-id}References: %message-id%<{references} %references%>%>
        !            72:        %<{distribution}Distribution: %distribution%>
        !            73:        Followup-to:
        !            74:        Fcc: +posted
        !            75:        --------

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