Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin
From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: mail to news
Message-ID: <552@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 87 05:18:37 GMT
References: <38fe15a9.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
Lines: 17
Keywords: mail news
Summary: Use recnews instead of inews.

In article <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM>, sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) writes:
> Set up an alias which will direct your mail into the
> inews program like this:
> 
> cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/inews -n honeywell.cad.parts -h"

     This will usually work, but can cause some problems with
header lines.  The alias should be:

cad-parts: |/usr/lib/news/recnews honeywell.cad.parts

Recnews strips those headers that do not belong in a news article,
then hands the article off to inews.

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