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- From: bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker)
- Subject: Re: Feeding via mail
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.035111.10040@becker.GTS.ORG>
- Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
- References: <1992Jun29.182912.20362@geovision.gvc.com> <1992Jul3.020017.27768@becker.GTS.ORG> <BRENDAN.92Jul7201129@betty.cs.widener.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 03:51:11 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- In article <BRENDAN.92Jul7201129@betty.cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu writes:
- |In article <1992Jul3.020017.27768@becker.GTS.ORG> bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker) writes:
- | The basic structure for news via email is
- | to make a "mail-site" sender module which
- | uuencodes the batch & sends it to an email
- | address at the target site.
- |
- |I haven't heard of many (any?) sites doing it like this; why uuencode text?
-
-
- Because news batches are normally compressed.
-
-
- Actually the "bencode" which comes with news
- is more efficient in packing than "uuencode".
-
-
- The total amount of effort to implement this
- for both sending & receiving sides is trivial
- for reasonably experienced newsadmins. Here's
- a C news+Sendmail example but other tools are
- generally as easy...
-
-
-
- Sending site:
-
-
- [$NEWSCTL/batchparms]
- # site size queue builder muncher sender
- # ---- ------ ----- ------- ------- ------
- sitex 999999 999 batcher compb mail-sitex
-
-
- [$NEWSBIN/batch/mail-sitex]
- mail recenews@sitex
-
-
-
- Receiving site:
-
-
- [/usr/lib/aliases]
- recenews: "|/usr/lib/newsbin/input/recenews"
-
-
-
- --
- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario
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