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On Tuesday, in article <816979196snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
     tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" wrote:

TW> In article <816911617snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
TW>            john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:
TW> 
TW> > On Monday, in article <816889401snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
TW> >      tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk "Tom Wheeley" wrote:
TW> > 
[mail2news at Demon]
TW> > careful. Thanks for the reassurance it doesn't crash Demon!
TW> 
TW> Heh, I trust aDe...

I assume he has nothing to do with punt4 replacing
message id's lately then.  [mumble, mumble, grrr]

TW> BTW, you _do_ get some interesting memory garbage on the Newsgroups: line!

I would guess that Snews isn't coded defensively and
assumes the presence of a Newsgroups line, probably
picking up the string with a 'null' pointer.  If so,
then you'd see it fall over with a GPF in a Windoze
dos box.

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TW> Can't say I noticed that snews has an alias.  Makes things easier :))

You can even set it up to be the same file as PcElm
uses.

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TW> oh well, maybe when I've got the HED engine going, it won't be too difficult
TW> to do an entire suite of env. var programs.  I bet 4DOS could do it :(

4dos is brilliant, but if you do programs that require
it you rather limit your users.

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TW> Could Mail2snz be modified to add a newsgroups line?  Then all you could do
TW> is add a 'newsalias' file (in 8 chars, of course <g>) which changes postings
TW> to 'xxx' to 'yyy', so that 'f' is automatic.

It could be modified.  Discussed more in my posting
that's crossed with yours.

TW> > But it still leaves the problem of whether a 'r'eply goes
TW> > to the originator or the reflector.  That's the more
TW> > difficult one, yet perhaps more important -- for those
TW> > that have different private/public personae it can be
TW> > quite embarrassing to have one's whispers appear on a
TW> > reflector!
TW> 
TW> Leave it to the user to a) be careful, b) badger the listadmin.

Wrong to badger the listadmin.  What are you going to exhort
him/her to do?  Many listadmins are wise not to have
Reply-To going to the reflector.  Unless the reflector
s/w is set up VERY carefully, it's easy to get endless
bounces when a subscriber goes AWOL and returns mail.

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TW> > AFAIR, mail2snz looks for 'From ' at the start of a line.
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TW> Isn't that _very_ 'unstable'?

I agree with Mark's answer.

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John Washington