Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: inews for NNTP and C news
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.214959.27884@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Sep1.191449.1292@anise.acc.com> <1989Sep1.212023.14592@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 21:49:59 GMT

In article <1989Sep1.212023.14592@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:
>... Whatever you do, don't pay attention to
>the man page for inews that says you could probably just throw
>formatted articles from posters (like Pnews) directly into
>relaynews.  For one thing, relaynews simply barfs when it gets an
>article in a moderated group if the inews preprocessing hasn't been
>done.

Properly formatted, spec-conforming articles will cause no problem.  If
your poster doesn't get the details right, then relaynews has every right
to barf, and going through inews is the right thing to do.  Note that
the manual page does not say that the posters *do* do things right, only
that they *could* and possibly *should*.
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