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Re: Database Piece Count
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lugnet.admin.database
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Date:
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Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:14:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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?
It wouldn't work. It would get blocked.
> 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.
Actually there are lots and lots of them, and there have been since 1994,
but they tend not to stay up for very long, or have access restrictions, or
aren't very flexible.
> 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.
I get bcc'd on every mail the script sends, so I'd get flooded too, and that
would piss me off, and I'd be likely just to shut the script off at that
point.
--
Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com>
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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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