[Nottingham] Mail2news gates...

Edam edam at waxworlds.org
Wed Jul 21 14:40:51 BST 2004


Yes. It is I.  :o)

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----- Original Message -----
From: ""Daniel Zadik"" <Daniel.Zadik at nottingham.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: wax.mail2news.nlug
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Mail2news gates...


> all right, tim?
>
> >>> edam at waxworlds.org 21 July 2004 13:07:47 >>>
> Hello there!
>
> I've been quietly listening to your conversations for a while now.
Lurking,
> you might say. All the messages come in to our server where a perl-script
> (mail2news.pl) posts them into a newsgroup. From here I would have your
> ramblings neatly catagorised and threaded for my convenience, except that
it
> doesn't work propperly.
>
> Messages arn't being threaded correctly! When I first got hold of the
> script, all replies to a thread were posted as replies to the original
> thread-starting message (if they were posted as replies atall!). After
some
> serious rewriting, it's a bit better, but I still get messages appearing
as
> replies to messages that should come after, and separate threads where
there
> should be only one! It's either an issue with Outlook Express' threading
> ability, or the script (which is mostly rewritten now) is broke.
>
> Lets face it - it could be either! So, would anyone be able to recomend a
> decent mail-to-news script to save me having to delve deeper into
> "References:" and "In-reply-to:" headers?  :o)
>
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