4 Setting Up News As An NNTP Client Only
4.5 Setting up a mail contact address for News matters
Any site exchanging news in the Usenet hierarchies is required to route mail
sent to the address usenet@site to the person responsible for managing news
usage at that site. In effect, usenet@site is to news what postmaster@site is
to mail. Even if you don't exchange news feeds with other sites, if users from
your site post to network newsgroups, readers outside your organization may try
to contact this address to report technical problems (e.g. the From: addresses
in posts from your site are unreplyable) or breaches of netiquette (e.g. a user
at your site is posting chain letters). You should create a mail forwarding
address or define a system-wide logical name which will direct incoming mail
with this address to the appropriate person. For instance, you can do this
using VMS Mail's Set Forward command:
$ Mail
MAIL> Set Forward/User=USENET myaddr
MAIL> Exit
where myaddr is the valid mail address to which you want incoming messages
to USENET directed.
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