Re: Mail to News

1998-11-10 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hi Paul, >Hi, >Does anybody know of any mail-to-news software I could use to gateway >the traffic from the mailing lists I subscribe to into a news server? >I'd need to be able to transfer incoming list mail into a local >newsgroup and direct local postings to the group out to the mailing >list.

smail, runq and gmx .... :(

1998-11-10 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
ages data which is targeted for "my users" into email-attachments and sends them) (if i don't dial up every night this can become pretty much ...) is there any smail-switch that i overlooked ... something like "try to send 20 times and then return to sender" ?? thanx a lot.

Re: How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

1998-10-29 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hello Nikolai, >> is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? >> i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on >> the last (official) cd. >> i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my >> "mirror" (a

How to check for new packages at debian.org ??

1998-10-28 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
e). (it's not a real mirror ... it's just an archive of _all_ packages ...) since i've got to use N(o)T(hanx) at work i can't use a simple script :8 any ideas ??? kind regards / mit freundlichen gruessen Andreas Neukoetter

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-28 Thread Andreas Neukoetter
Hi, >They are both lovely suggestions, unfortunately the problem is a bit more >substantial. The 1st thing I tried was "tar -zxvf home.tgz", and a couple >of the things I tried soon after that were cat and less. Neither of which >read any of it -- less is the only thing that did anything usefu