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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Archimedes RUCP.
Message-ID: <3Ro3321w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:29:37 GMT
References: <1991Jun05.044049.1065@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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Julian.Wright@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Julian Wright) writes:
> In article <VNN1311w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C
> News a *HUG*) writes:
> > Of course, it's quite possible that there are people reading this using
> > RUCP to connect to a UNIX box and post news, and not getting any error
> > reports.  You won't, because C News doesn't bother to report the error. It
> > just deletes the article silently.
> 
> Well that would be a real problem if it were possible to post articles
> with RUCP. But RUCP 0.11 only allows you to _collect_ news for reading,
> not post anything. Only EMail can be both sent and received.

If you can send Email you can post news, as I explained in the bit of the
article which you deleted.


mathew