-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mike,
On 3 Jul 2008 at 7:10, Mike Webb said: [Mike quotes me.] > > I have need of posting Usenet news by email and I can add custom headers > > in my email client (Pegasus Mail) easily. I wrote a small Tcl script to > > let me do this trivial task, which you can get here: > > http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/newspost > > > > I have set up newspost<at>accmaild.org as an open access service for the > > benefit of those who need or want to post to Usenet without the web. > > (snip) > > > See also http://www.bananasplit.info/ , which has another gateway like > > this, using the perl mail2news script. > > Comparing your script to the bananasplit.info method, I do not see a > way to include a newsgroups header if the email client doesn't support > custom headers or return address munging (to avoid spambots). Have I missed > something? If not, do you intend to add such features in the future? No, you're right - the script is absolutely minimal. I don't need these features at the moment, but I am aware of a likely need in future to support the clients that don't know how to let you edit headers directly into a message like the ones on phones (it's quite a natural thing to do on Unixlikes and in powerful Windows mailers that will give you the ability to identify yourself as whoever you want). The problem is that I can't think of a clean, healthy way to do it. There is quite simply no better way than the present one of adding headers that are understood everywhere and have no impact on other mail users - every other method is either convenient only to mail users exclusively posting to Usenet or likely to cause problems of one sort or another, which guarantee problems for seemless mail-to-news. For instance, using newsgroup- specific addresses will give us problems with crossposting and won't support other headers beside Newsgroups; and using headers in the body is a nuisance when mail users read your post when crossposted to both news and mailing lists as well as introducing a vast array of parsing problems even though it's easy to do at the sender's end. I'll let you know what conclusion, if any, I come to about this. Right now, though, I need news to mail and back again for my existing email clients, and this script fits the bill very nicely (and, what's more, is very fast). Cheers, Sabahattin - -- Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mail<at>sabahattin<dash>gucukoglu<dot>com> Address harvesters, snag this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8 Comment: QDPGP - http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBSG96LiNEOmEWtR2TEQKchwCgwnv10H2u5o4z7ZC7C1lL4doelWMAoMcS 9jZLAkztNWt7Mdcigp1d5WFw =mnpe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to accmail@listserv.aol.com To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. WWW: http://emailonly.szs.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
