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Re: Database Piece Count
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lugnet.admin.database
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:18:28 GMT
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:14:41AM +0000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Could do... I don't think the remailer is set up that way currently though.
> Why don't you hack around with a form that uses it and see if you can
> autopost to lugnet.test by mailing to the news gateway or something?
could do that, but assuming that the cgi is run on the lugnet server,
it'd be a waste of resources to do cgi-to-smtp-to-nntp, when the cgi
could just inject the message to the NG.
> What Todd did for me is just a FORM-to-mailer, nothing more. At the time he
> did it there weren't other FORM-to-mailers easily available to people that
> didn't have cgi on their own servers. The control you get is that you can
> set who the mail goes to, that's about it.
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> One issue is that I would hate to see someone use it to flood the newsgroup
> with garbage. Flooding someone's inbox isn't quite as bad.
nod... though if we limit this form to members only, we'll know who's
doing it, and will be able to properly yell at him :)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) A waste of *computing* resources yes. But not a waste of development resources, because it's already done. (reuse what exists before embarking on development of new, unless there is some huge reason not to reuse (1) ) Note that the current (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| (...) Could do... I don't think the remailer is set up that way currently though. Why don't you hack around with a form that uses it and see if you can autopost to lugnet.test by mailing to the news gateway or something? What Todd did for me is just (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
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