Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How to send mail to C news
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.155636.28379@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Oct20.145715.5182@sony.com> <1989Oct21.225543.22780@utzoo.uucp> <1989Oct23.063040.25063@rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 89 15:56:36 GMT

In article <1989Oct23.063040.25063@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>Henry> Please read the newsmail(8) manual page of C News...
>
>Does it?  It seems like what he wants is a mail->news gateway...
>... What I get out of the newsmail manual page is that
>is for transferring news through mail systems, not for putting
>"regular" mail messages into USENET newsgroups.  Am I misunderstanding
>the manual page in some way?

The documentation is written in terms of using mail to transfer news, but
there is no reason why a mail message with the proper headers can't be fed
into news that way.  He asked for a uurec equivalent; that's what that
stuff is.

If you want something that will edit headers for you, *then* you need to
look in contrib.
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