From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: Re: sendnewsmail problem
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2445
Posted: Fri Jul 16 17:00:41 1982
Received: Sat Jul 17 02:42:08 1982
References: ittvax.385

inews is supposed to not fork if the input is not coming from
a tty, so sendnewsmail shouldn't be forking inews.  This does
not, of course, mean that some bug isn't causing inews to get forked.

The recording problem is more serious.  It applies to delivermail+recnews
as well as sendnewsmail.  recnews could use the -D flag, but this
would defeat the purpose of recording - if someone routinely
uses mail (or emacs or his favorite user interface) to post articles,
he will never be warned about what he isn't supposed to post.
The same problem happened when inews wouldn't create a new newsgroup
without asking permission unless it was in the background, and
the problem was solved by just making it bomb out.  I don't have
a good solution here - if someone does, please speak out.

	Mark