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[Zonker T. Chuqui]

> 	We are now running 4.2 BSD and using ucb/mail and sendmail as our
> primary mail facility.  Our sole link to the rest of the world is CSNet
> through which we receive several arpanet bulletin boards.  These bulletin
> boards are then fanned out locally to all intrested parties by sendmail.
> What I want is a package that will help me avoid clogging my system with
> so many duplicat copies of the same messages, something to keep a single
> copy of all this stuff for everyone to read (once without seeing again),
> and go through and delete old messages.

One thing I can think of would be to have your csnet stuff feed into news
or notes instead of sendmail. It shouldn't be that hard to have news accept
this stuff. you wouldn't need to take a news feed for this, simply find a
nice interface for your stuff to come into. Another thing would be to
teach sendmail links or have indirect pointers in your mailboxes that point
to the messages in another location that could be preened out occasionally.

chuq

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>From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
{cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui  nsc!chuqui at decwrl.ARPA

How about 'reason for living?'