On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
Would something like this work on Netcom's Unix system with the rn
program? If its possible, what would I need to do?
(this ramble is Netcom shell specific)
This might be a stretch -- sometime around Feb or Mar of this year, Netcom
changed the configuration of their Mail servers, and it may not be possible
to successfully run a newsreader from a Procmail script because of this (the
mail servers are separate machines from the machines you log into to do
things, AFAIK).
You are correct. Greg Andrews was going to mount news on the mail servers
- but he and Netcom parted ways before he got around to it.
Several people have had problems with this as scripts they used to run now
need to be done manually.