Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!nirvo!kdg 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 Lines: 31 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.) -- Kurt Gollhardt \ Nirvonics, Inc. -- Plainfield, NJ Kurt.Gollhardt@nirvo.uucp /\ Software Design and Consulting ...!rutgers!nirvo!Kurt.Gollhardt / \ "It's all about people; not you and me or him and her, but *us*."