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- From: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Help fix the Info-Atari8/16 Digests
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:43:05 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1ivhhpINNoik@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
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- As many of you should already know, Usenet's comp.sys.atari.8bit and
- comp.sys.atari.st have alternate identities as the Internet mailing-lists
- Info-Atari8 Digest and Info-Atari16 Digest. Every posting on the Usenet
- side appears on the Internet side. Problem: Any posting sent to the
- Internet mail-list is NOT cross-posted to the Usenet side.
-
- John Dunning, jrd@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com, and maintainer of the
- Info-Atari8/16 Digests, would like to fix the digestifer software to
- cross-post in both directions. The following is from him:
-
- >
- [The digestifier is] a C program and a bunch of shell scripts. Most of the
- interesting work is done in the program, the shell scripts are mostly
- there to decide when to run the program, and shovel things from the news
- directories into mail format, which the digestifier wants. There are a
- couple of stupid little programs that I wrote to aid in the process.
-
- There are two big problems in all this: When news messages are
- received, they need to be sent through something that will mail them to
- the digestifier program. That happens completely parasitically now, and
- it's a kludge. The other thing that's necessary (which I've never been
- able to figure out how to do) is to go the other way, ie mail received
- *from outside* for the digestifier gets sent to the news sender. You
- need to be careful in a couple of places to prevent loops.
-
- If you can scare up some folks who know enough about this kind thing to
- get it working, I (and the rest of the list, I suspect) will be
- eternally grateful.
- >
- End quoting from John Dunning.
-
- Again, contact jrd@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com if you can help. I would
- imagine the participants of comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.st, the
- Info-Atari8 Digest and the Info-Atari16 Digest would be very grateful indeed.
- --
- Michael Current, Cleveland Free-Net 8-bit Atari SIGOp
- Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA / UUCP: ...!umn-cs!ccnfld!currentm
- Internet: currentm@carleton.edu / Cleveland Free-Net: aa700
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