Subj : importing mailing lists
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Rima
Date : Tue Jun 23 2020 00:26:20

   Hello mark!

22 Jun 20 18:44, you wrote to me:

 ml>   Re: importing mailing lists
 ml>   By: Sean Rima to All on Mon Jun 22 2020 20:33:00


 SR>> Just wondering what others are using to import mailing lists, one
 SR>> way, to echos

 ml> when i was doing that on my old RA/FD/FE setup, i used GIGO which
 ml> created PKTs for FE to import... my GIGO had its own FTN address for
 ml> the purpose...

 ml> these days, though, i'm running sbbs which has that ability builtin...
 ml> the messages are posted to a message area... if that area is QWK
 ml> networked, they go out that way... if it is FTN'd, they go that way...
 ml> they can even be accessed via NNTP if configured for such ;)

Yeah I used to use GIGo also. Took me awhile to get used to it. It was one of the Benefits also of BBBS in that mailing lists could go straight to an echo. There was a soup based program, just cannot recall the name of it. I know the source is out there

Sean


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