scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) (06/20/91)
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article <6098@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: >>Mini-inews is NOT a transport. It is just a feed into NNTP which in turn >>feeds it into the REAL inews in the news transport. THAT is where all these >>checks should occur. > But that is exactly the point. mini-inews does not do the error checking >of the REAL inews, but if effectively isolates the poster from the REAL >inews making good feedback difficult. Good point. What we really need is a "standard library" that will do syntax checking on article headers. Make it real portable, PD, and hand it out to the world. Henry/Geoff, is this section of C-news "libraryizable"? (gads, what a horrid neologism) Once we have this, adding said function to mini-inews, waffle, etc, etc, becomes relatively trivial. It doesn't solve the problem of installation that don't upgrade, but it's a solid step to make the situation better in the future. -- "If we don't provide support to our users someone is bound to confuse us with Microsoft." -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (06/25/91)
In article <scs.677425398@wotan.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >Good point. What we really need is a "standard library" that will do >syntax checking on article headers. Make it real portable, PD, and >hand it out to the world. Henry/Geoff, is this section of C-news >"libraryizable"? (gads, what a horrid neologism) Probably not in the sense you're really after. The header syntax is pretty trivial; what's wanted is a *semantic* checker, so to speak, and that's much harder to break out. Header processing is a "hot spot" in timing, so much attention has been paid to optimizing it. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry