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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Local" Newgroups?
Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:10:35 GMT
Organization: Usenet Canal Historique
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In article <54uspj$scr@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I've heard it's possible to read e-mail messages as if they were
> a newsgroup, e.g. with tin, and get them threaded.  I've tried
> this with tin and not succeeded in getting it set up properly,
> and would appreciate an explanation about how to do this.

Someone will probably point you to the mail2news program (you can use FTP
Search[1] to find it) but I'd like to give another way:

Use Mutt[2]. It is a mail user agent, loosely based on Elm/PINE, written
from scratch by Michael Elkins[3]. It supports threading for mail (by using
either a References: or a In-Reply-To: header). You can find more
information about it on the Mutt home page[2] or Sven Guckes' page[4].

[1] <URL:http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/>
[2] <URL:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/>
[3] <URL:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/>
[4] <URL:http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/>
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT  -=- FreeBSD: The daemon is FREE! -=-  roberto@freebsd.org
Mutt: smaller, faster than ELM. See <URL:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/>