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From: fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How do I use recenews?
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.133534.17116@vitro.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 13:35:34 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.214728.11667@vitro.com> <1991Feb19.215942.23527@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb27.200859.22746@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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In <1991Feb27.200859.22746@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> matt@eecs.nwu.edu (Matt Larson) writes:

>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.

This is the sort of thing I was looking for when I originally asked this
question.  I have never used B news, but will look into the source from
the archive.  What I do is mail news to people who don't have News
software and I want to give them a header template to fill in and mail
some alias to post it.  I tried piping something like that to inews -h
but it didn't work.  Recenews uses the b7encoding and I don't get mail
from them that way.  I hope we can come up with something here.
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