Proper channel newsfeeds usage.

[gabriel rosenkoetter]

I apologize if this ends up being a redundant post, but the email I
sent earlier today doesn't seem to have made its way through the
mailing list process in a reasonable amount of time, nor have I
received a bounce.

I'm trying to get a channel newsfeed to receive some piece of
information that I can use to get the actual body of the posted
message. I *seemed* that adding the Wn flag to the newsfeed
definition would get me what I wanted, presuming I was using
tradspool for my storage method (I am). In fact, newsfeeds(5) even
goes so far as to show an example:

  nntpfunnel1:!*\
    :Tc,Wmn*:<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/nntpfanout

Which it claims will get something like this on stdin:

  <124 at litchi.foo.com> ne/general/1003 nic.near.net

I have a newsfeed declared like this:

  foobar!:foo.*:Tc,Ac,Wn:/path/to/foobar.pl

My script, which is just dumping what it receives on stdin to a log
file, is instead receiving something more like this:

  @0500000000080000000C0000000000000000@

What gives? What is that token meant to express?

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