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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Subject: Re: sending a mail file to inews
Message-ID: <90894@becker.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 91 17:30:37 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.233624.11811@ssd.kodak.com> <1991Apr16.153753.2336@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1991Apr16.153753.2336@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|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.

	I've been injecting a number of mail lists
	into news here for a while - I use a shell
	script that calls awk, which does the real
	work.

	This seems to be pretty reliable; the main
	problems are dup Message-ID's, or else the
	system running out of process slots...

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