This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
Almost a test
Article: 7447 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: gavin@sallery.demon.co.uk (Gavin Sallery) Subject: Almost a test X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sallery.demon.co.uk Message-ID: 19950225.160558.34@sallery.demon.co.uk Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration) Reply-To: gavin@sallery.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Archimedes TTFN Version 0.36 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:05:58 GMT Approved: Clearance UV Lines: 26 Status: RO
Almost, but not quite. ObHack: This post. Having tired of manually hacking round the idiot filter on my news suite, I've written a small application. This application sits on the icon bar (RISC OS, not Windoze) until I activate it; at which point, it searches the outgoing queue of my transport (Arc KA9Q), and finds the newest file. It loads this in, scans through, redirects the file's destination to alt.hackers, and makes the appropriate changes to the header. All at the click of a mouse. The idea is, I can write an article to any group (unmoderated), and then tell !TTFN (my newsreader) to post it. At this point, the news manager checks to see if it is posting to a moderated group, and if so, queues the article separately, awaiting moderator approval. It also performs a few other checks, like making sure you're not posting to control, or other such things that users should never have to do :-) Of course, once it's sent the file through this filter, it hands it over to the transport program. The transport program doesn't care where the article's going, so this is where I intercept it. A fairly lame hack, but it makes it so much easier to post here :-) -- ______ _________ /__ (_ \ Hertfordshire, England \_|avin __)allery \______________________