Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news meets a mailing list
Message-ID: <1989Aug8.154631.2816@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Aug7.060124.8135@indetech.uucp>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 15:46:31 GMT

In article <1989Aug7.060124.8135@indetech.uucp> david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder) writes:
>Given my track record on this stuff I may have missed it, but is there
>a method for gatewaying an inbound mailing list into a news group in 
>C news?  In B I used "recnews"...

If you look at the newsmail(8) manual page, you'll see our equivalents.
You may also want to look at contrib/nntpmail/mail*, which contains stuff
done elsewhere at U of T for such things.  We didn't include anything
fancy as an official part of the distribution -- note the disclaimers
in contrib/README -- partly because we didn't have an opportunity to test
it ourselves.

One thing that can still make minor difficulties is that "inews -h" still
insists on overriding some headers.  Fixed in next patch.

>Speaking not being able to see straight.  Any ideas were nearly empty
>batches might be generated?  We send out the occasional cunbatch script
>wrapped around the magic that says 12 bit compressed and zero actual
>data.

Is it causing problems?  It's a normal occurrence if you have stuff
expiring quickly enough that the batcher sometimes can't find any of
the articles that are supposed to go into a batch.  Normally this only
happens when a system which does fast expiring is feeding a site
which has communications problems, so some of the batching gets deferred
until after a lot of stuff has expired.
-- 
1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo.  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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