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- From: tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for QWK mail maker for Unix
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:40:45 GMT
- Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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- ckalin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Christopher Allen Kalin) writes:
- :
- : As the subject states, I'm looking for either the source or a compiled
- : program that collects unread mail from a specified area and compresses it
- : into a .QWK packet for offline reader use. This is a GREAT function on many
- : BBS's, and I thought it would be great to do with Usenet as well.
- :
-
- I've been thinking along the same lines, so much so that I am going
- to write up an Internet RFC on how this is done, in order to encourage
- it.
-
- Reading news is not much problem. The messages are all in spool files,
- one message per file (on Unix systems, anyway) and the directories
- indicate the names of the archives. The main problem would be in
- how people signed up for them and will their QWK readers handle the
- size of the articles. (If QWK readers handle 100 line messages okay,
- should the door program chop at 100, split into multiple messages, or exclude
- articles longer than 100 lines?)
-
- Writing news is the biggie unless the program has access to the spool or
- can fool the submission program into accepting posted messages (on a Unix
- system, for example, a user program can call Sendmail to send a file).
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