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From: lamy@cs.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: Posting over nntp
Message-ID: <90Feb6.080639est.6255@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: nn post nntp
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Date: 6 Feb 90 13:07:18 GMT
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steve@gapos.bt.co.uk (Steve A Rooke) writes:

>but not to cancel it.  I have modified this script to construct the header
>lines and pipe to inews -h.  Can this be born in mind in future releases

Kim was given the patches and they are present at patchlevel 8 (if not
earlier).  One problem with posting over nntp is that the return codes from
the remote inews (invoked on the nntp server) sometimes appear to get lost and
the POST command returns ok when in fact the posting has failed (nntpd logs
the error message from the real inews but apparently loses the non-zero exit
status).  There is a similar oddity in which the fake inews seems not to
set the return code properly in certain circumstances.

If anyone has fixed either, I'd like a copy of the patch.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@cs.utoronto.ca, uunet!cs.utoronto.ca!lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4