rikard@enorm.eb.se (H Rikard Johansson) (02/02/90)
I have version 2.11.17 of Bnews and I have two questions: 1. I have the following problem: inews: Article rejected: uucp included more text than new text with some of my articles that is going thru a mail2news program, when people have used special mailprograms, and there are some extra stuff in the header. Is there a fix for this? 2. What is the major differences betwixt Bnews and Cnews? Thanks -- +====================================================================+ | Rikard Johansson Email: Rikard@EB.se | | EB Signal, Sweden Voice: +46 8 726 2065 | +====================================================================+
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (02/05/90)
In article <648@enorm.eb.se> rikard@EB.se (H Rikard Johansson) writes: |I have version 2.11.17 of Bnews and I have two questions: | |1. |I have the following problem: | |inews: Article rejected: uucp included more text than new text | |with some of my articles that is going thru a mail2news program, |when people have used special mailprograms, and there are some |extra stuff in the header. Is there a fix for this? Somewhere in your mail2news script use sed or awk to change all lines in the message body with initial ">" to have initial "|". This will fake out inews. |2. |What is the major differences betwixt Bnews and Cnews? Cnews has better performance, and is much more flexible. It also has a Saturn V booster for the first stage. -- (__) Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \@@/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/v/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ \_ Well I didn't want to mention it cause it's so silly, but you know how
kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) (02/05/90)
H Rikard Johansson writes: > I have the following problem: > > inews: Article rejected: uucp included more text than new text > > with some of my articles that is going thru a mail2news program, > when people have used special mailprograms, and there are some > extra stuff in the header. Is there a fix for this? Bruce Becker writes: > Somewhere in your mail2news script use sed or awk to change all lines > in the message body with initial ">" to have initial "|". This will > fake out inews. Please don't! This will only make the article harder to read for everyone. If you're the administrator of a news system and you don't like article being rejected because of the percentage of included text, then change inews. If you can't change inews, then prepend a space to the lines beginning with `>'. This will fool inews and will make the article more readable in most cases.
brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) (02/06/90)
If you find that inews is rejecting articles in your mail-to-news gateway because the sender has included too many lines from a previous article, you can interpose a sed script '/^>/d' that will elide those lines. Most people won't miss them. I would contend that your system is doing the right thing. And I'm only partly kidding. - Brian
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (02/06/90)
kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes: | > in the message body with initial ">" to have initial "|". This will | > fake out inews. |Please don't! This will only make the article harder to read for |everyone. Speak for yourself! I like vertical bars much better. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** "May I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism *** in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there *** is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit." -MP
storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) (02/09/90)
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
o|Please don't! This will only make the article harder to read for
o|everyone.
oSpeak for yourself! I like vertical bars much better.
oSean
o--
o*** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
o*** "May I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism
o*** in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there
o*** is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit." -MP
Or you can use any other letter (!!) you like, like o above. Remember
that news is not an exclusive US business anymore! And characters like
{ | } [ \ ] etc. are used to represent NATIONAL LETTERS in many European
countries, so if you use "vertical bar", you could just as well use
'k' or 'p' - your article would be equally difficult to read.
So, PLEASE!!!! Use >, just > and nothing but >
--
Kim F. Storm storm@texas.dk Tel +45 429 174 00
Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
No news is good news, but nn is better!