From: Bernie Cosell (bernie@fantasyfarm.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 07:43:30 CDT
On 5 Aug 2002, at 0:40, Chris Gunn wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:22:50 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Actually, the difficulties in using Agent to moderate with encapsulated
> >sumbissions are VERY deep; I'm not convinced it will be possible at all.
>
> Howdy Bernie,
Hey Chris... I'm glad to hear:
> The Agent Beta Team (which I'm a member of now) has kicked it around
> Using Agent for moderating starts by exporting the messages to a file
> formatted in the Unix message storage format. Then are imported again and
> the headings are adjusted for posting to the newsgroups.
>
> It's not terribly difficult to write a little utility to reformat the Unix
> export file before importing them again. Just means I'll have to click one
> more button to process the messages once I've got the utility coded.
Well, 'not terribly difficult' isn't quite the case. In the proposal
recently advanced, the moderated submissions will be in an
text/news-submission MIME section, and so the 'reformat' will have to
involve MIME parsing EACH message, extracting the section with the news
article, putting just that section into a new archive [If you're going to
use mbox format for the "news" version of the archive, then youre
reformating will also have to catch "From " lines and put that STOOOPID
">" at the front of it [I can't *believe* that that crockery has
persisted for something like 25 years now....]]. [will the rules for
encapsulated usenet submissions include explicit MUSTs for such
submissions [e.g., only *ONE* submission in any such message, and the
message will ALWAYS contain _exactly_one_ MIME section consisting of the
submission; or will it really require full-blown [and probably recursive,
if there's a text/rfc822 MIME section?] extraction software]
I agree it is not a BIG deal [probably 30 lines of Perl if you have the
right libraries installed]. But it also ain't a "one liner"..:o)
> BTW, taking care of the moderators is an important part of Agent's marketing
> plans and they aren't going to let things get screwed up.
Great news! It has never been quite clear to me whether using Agent to
moderate is a sideline or an important application for Forte [for
example, 1.91 broke Message-ID handling... I got a bug/enhancement
report filed on it and I'll be anxious to see if they fixed it in
1.92...]
/Bernie\
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