Role of inews

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:

> I said that I'd look at fixing the problem with inews requiring group
> news access to pathtmp before 2.3.1.  The way that I'm inclined to fix
> this is by just ripping out all of the code in news that checks that the
> groups to which the article is posting are valid, since the exact same
> checks are done by nnrpd.  Does anyone see any reason not to do this?

> It sure rips a lot of extra code out of inews.

Note that if I rip all that stuff out, that means that inews also won't do
the bit of adding distributions based on the server distrib.pats, nor will
it do the mailing to moderated groups directly (instead, it will post and
let the server does that).  This has the side effect of not printing the
notification "article has been mailed to moderator" like inews currently
does.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>