5 Setting Up News as a Local Reader/Server
5.6 Setting up required mail addresses
5.6.1 Administrative contact address for News matters
Any site exchanging news in the Usenet hierarchies is required to route mail 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.
5.6.2 Addresses for incoming news feeds
If you are accepting incoming news feeds by mail, when you make arrangements
with the site that is feeding you, you will need to supply them with an address
to which to mail the items they're sending you. Traditionally, this address has
been either rnews@site or newsmail@site. If you are receiving feeds via
mail, it will minimize confusion if you create mail forwarding addresses or
define system-wide logical names to route mail to these addresses to a place
where your periodic maintenance batch job will find the incoming items.
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