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From: kdg@nirvo.uucp (Kurt Gollhardt)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news meets a mailing list
Message-ID: <24E507AE.126C@nirvo.uucp>
Date: 13 Aug 89 05:31:25 GMT
References: <1989Aug7.060124.8135@indetech.uucp> <1989Aug8.154631.2816@utzoo.uucp> <1989Aug10.221915.15905@indetech.uucp> <1989Aug13.001906.27932@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: kdg@nirvo.UUCP (Kurt Gollhardt)
Organization: Nirvonics Inc., Plainfield, NJ
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In article <1989Aug13.001906.27932@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Aug10.221915.15905@indetech.uucp> david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder) writes:
>>>>... In B I used "recnews"...
>>>
>>>If you look at the newsmail(8) manual page, you'll see our equivalents.
>>
>>...newsmail(8) I did see those but had interpreted them as transport
>>mechanisms and not gatewaying programs.  In particular recenews and
>>recpnews both presume that they are recieving mail that has been
>>encoded...
>
>As did B recnews, unless my memories are much mistaken.  Recpnews is meant
>to be fully compatible with B recnews (which, incidentally, is a *lousy*
>transport mechanism and not a particularly good gateway).

I'm afraid you *are* much mistaken.  B recnews definitely expects user-generated
mail which is *not* encoded.  Now, it's not a transport mechanism, so I guess
it *would* be a lousy one.  It does seem to be intended as a gateway, but I
do agree with you that it's not a particularly good one, even though I *am*
using it (previously with B news; now, after some hacking, with C news - I,
too, had dismissed the contrib/nntpmail stuff as not relevant since I don't
use NNTP; now that you've mentioned it, and I actually looked at it, I know
better, but it *was* rather unfortunately named).

(BTW, in general I'm very happy with C news.  Thank you for creating it.)

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