Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[kaih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kai Henningsen)]

henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry Spencer)  wrote on 24.08.05 in <Pine.BSI.3.91.1050824112449.27039B-100000@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.

But those "most basic sanity checks" are - from what you say - exactly the  
same as NNTP does.

MfG Kai