Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews.help
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.033330.11055@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec28.141340.26945@davidge>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 90 03:33:30 GMT

In article <1990Dec28.141340.26945@davidge> bew@davidge (Brett Wynkoop) writes:
>... I can not seem to get recpnews to work
>and the documentation on it is almost nonexistant.  can anyone out
>there tell me the format that recpnews expects the mail message to be
>in for posting to a news group...

I think you are making a fundamental mistake:  assuming that recpnews is
meant as a mail->news gateway.  It isn't.  That is a hard job.  Recpnews
is intended to receive news articles transmitted from another news site 
using viapmail (see newsbatch(8)), with mail used as a transport medium
for articles that have already been posted as news.  Gatewaying *mail*
messages into a newsgroup is much harder, especially in the presence of
mailing lists, and we provide no tidy solutions for it.  There is some
stuff in our "contrib" directory that is used hereabouts for this, although
it is not terribly well documented.

>     On another front I would like to get my hands on the Bnews
>postnews.  I find it superior to the one provided with Cnews...

I'd suggest using the posting interface from a smart news reader, like
rn, instead.  That's likely to be better than either one.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry