Asks: > Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 09:50:00 EST > From: Vern Maxson <[log in to unmask]> > > Is anyone else using gopher to point to Listserv files? > Do you have a way to automate the building of a gopher FILELIST when > you add a new file to a Listserv list? Ask Jim Beach, maintainer of TAXACOM (a LISTSERV on HARVARDA) and huh.harvard.edu (a biodiversity gopher) for more details. Peter > From: Jim Beach <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Taxacom to Gopher > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 17:20:29 EST > > Taxacom e-mail gets put into the Gopher directory this way: > > 1. create an account for a bogus user on HUH called taxbbs. > 2. subscribe "[log in to unmask] to the Taxacom Listserv list > 3. link the mail spool file for taxbbs (/var/spool/mail/taxbbs) to > a directory under the gopher data hierarchy using Sun symbolic > links. > 4. The gopher server automagically treats individual mail messages in that > file as gopher items. > > James H. Beach [log in to unmask] > Data Administrator Tel: (617) 495-1912 > MCZ, Herbaria, Arnold Arboretum Fax: (617) 495-9484 > 22 Divinity Avenue > Harvard University Lat: 42 22' 43.8" N > Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Long: 71 06' 54.0" W