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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: sending a mail file to inews
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.153753.2336@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 15:37:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.233624.11811@ssd.kodak.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr15.233624.11811@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
>Is it possible to send a mail file through inews and have it posted
>to a newsgroup? ...

It's possible but not trivial.  News needs more headers (e.g., Newsgroups)
and is fussier about the format of headers (e.g., parenthesized comments
are allowed in only one or two places).  You can't just feed mail into inews
and expect it to work reliably.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry