Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!unixland!achilles From: achilles@unixland.uucp (David Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Gatewayed messages from Citadel Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 03:55:41 GMT References: Sender: bbs@unixland.uucp (Waffle BBS) Distribution: comp Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public-Access Unix Lines: 30 steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: > > *** FORWARDED MESSAGE -- REPLY TO AUTHOR *** > > You should be able to pipe these directly into inews (or rnews) > if you write a routine to reformat the date field, which is seriously > bad for Usenet. Send me mail so I can figure out a path to your .UUCP > site and I'll send you a C routine that will produce a correctly > formatted date field. Writing code to parse ``91May12 9:52 am'' > shouldn't be very hard. > > I'd also suggest that if Subject == ``[none]'' you should set > it to ``Gatewayed from Citadel network'', which is at least > informative. > > ---- > Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org This stuff would be piped directly into the newsgroup if I had an operable feed. At the moment I'm lacking a feed; I do not have an operating UUCICO program, nor do I have the necessary documentation to write one myself. Rewriting the date field isn't a big issue in any event. To send mail to my system, you can use any of the following paths: mast.moundst.mn.org!blade!moonsweep!ranger [citadel] over.mind.org!moonsweep!ranger [citadel] theep.boston.ma.us!wildcat!moonsweep!ranger alfalfa.com!pro-angmar!moonsweep!ranger This is of course off topic in here...