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.
>
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