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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 16:00:12 EDT
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chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) <3013@nsc.UUCP>:

>>	How about having a file which is a list of productions.
>
>Actually, newsgroups seem to come with some regularity, and go with some
>rarity, but that is beside the point.
>
>It is really easy to talk about building a text file that inews uses to
>define the restrictions. It is even easier when you don't have to write the
>parser for that file, or worry about eating CPU cycles every time an
>article comes in (remember, the file implies reading the file, parsing the
>file, and acting upon it -- a non-trivial load if it isn't done very
>carefully. While I agree that there is a need for flexibility in the
>restriction set, I don't want to write that kind of code, and I'm not at
>all sure it is neccessary. All we REALLY need to do is add a function call
>to inews called something like 'mung_header()', pass it the header
>structure, and then put the function itself in the file 'header_munger.c'.
>Then, when the ettiquette rules change, some person makes the modifications
>and reposts the .c file, and everyone recompiles inews. That gives us the
>same sort of flexibility without the overhead of fopen(), fclose(), and all
>of those fread() calls.
>
>chuq

Suppose... for the purposes of munging the headers of incoming messages from
other machines, the restrictions were to be placed in environment variables
imposed by some man-readable shell script which then execs over to the news
handler?  Would that help at all?

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