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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: <91014@becker.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 91 23:09:50 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.153753.2336@zoo.toronto.edu> <90894@becker.UUCP> <1991Apr19.223903.28698@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1991Apr19.223903.28698@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|In article <90894@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
|>|It's possible but not trivial.  News needs more headers (e.g., Newsgroups)
|>|and is fussier about the format of headers...
|>
|>	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.
|
|A reasonable approach.  Does your shell/awk combo deal with things like
|parenthesized comments where they aren't allowed in news?  The real test
|of a gateway is how it copes with extreme cases, not whether it handles
|the typical ones easily.  It's not as simple as it looks.

	Well, I certainly have found that it isn't
	as simple as it looks, you're right there.
	The current version works because it's had
	fixes applied until it does, not because I
	RTFM. I've currently (until next week) got
	B news installed -  the case you mentioned
	hasn't yet arisen so it isn't implemented.
	B news seems to accept the "(" without any
	complaints so it actually converts "From:"
	lines to that style (perhaps incorrectly).
	When I go to C news, I can see that it may
	need to be fixed for that case, as well as
	as yet undiscovered others.  No doubt this
	is a familiar-sounding circumstance 8^)...

Cheers,
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