Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 Aug 2005, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> But if you're doing news propagation and the intermediate site is supposed  
> to see the article, it goes through rnews - which, in the case of INN,  
> does NNTP, I believe, though not necessarily over IP, and thus certainly  
> checks. I expect C news did similar stuff.

C News went the opposite route:  where all INN's incoming paths ultimately
go via NNTP, all of C News's ultimately went via a disk spool area (very
much in the style of UUCP).  The injection path did rigorous checking and
fixups (e.g. adding Date) on user-posted articles before dropping them in
the spool area.  The UUCP and NNTP incoming paths dropped data in the
spool area without examining it.  The server/relayer code picked up from
the spool area, and for speed, did only the most basic sanity checks --
superficial parse of all the headers, check for presence of mandatory
headers, detailed parse only for headers it actually cared about. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx