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From: matt@eecs.nwu.edu (Matt Larson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How do I use recenews?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.200859.22746@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 20:08:59 GMT
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In article <1991Feb19.215942.23527@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> Recenews and friends are intended for transmitting news via mail from one
|> news system to another, not for gatewaying mail messages into news.  There
|> is a popular illusion that gatewaying ought to be trivial; it's not.  We
|> do not provide a canned solution for it at this time.

We recently upgraded from B news to C news and we missed this B news
feature right away: we have several mailing lists have an alias that
invokes ``recnews'' to post an article to the corresponding local
group.

When I realized that C news had no analogue to recnews, I took a look
through the B news source for recnews and decided that there was no
reason that I couldn't run it under C news.  I dropped the binary back
into the library directory and things have been working fine.

My question is: How do other sites handle the gatewaying of mail to
newsgroups under C news?  (Note that in our case the newsgroup name is
known ahead of time and does not have to be determined by examining
the mail message.)  Am I asking for trouble using recnews from B news?

Thanks for any input,

--
Matt Larson, Distributed Systems Analyst
Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University
matt@acns.nwu.edu   (708) 491-5366