Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do I use recenews?
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.215942.23527@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb18.214728.11667@vitro.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 21:59:42 GMT

In article <1991Feb18.214728.11667@vitro.com> fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) writes:
>...What I haven't figured out
>how to do is some way for them to post back to news.  I see you
>can alias rnews in mail so that it calls recenews, but it seems
>what it gets much be bdecoded or have to N's in it...

Recenews and friends are intended for transmitting news via mail from one
news system to another, not for gatewaying mail messages into news.  There
is a popular illusion that gatewaying ought to be trivial; it's not.  We
do not provide a canned solution for it at this time.
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"Read the OSI protocol specifications?  | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
I can't even *lift* them!"              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
