rnews, inews: Neither has all the features

[Russ Allbery]

Felix E Klee <felix.klee at inka.de> writes:

> I'm still annoyed that rnews doesn't produce a message on stdout or
> terminate with a non-zero return value when it cannot post a message.
> Instead it uses syslog to "silently" report the error.  That's not of
> much use to me, unless there's a simple and efficient way to find
> relevant error messages in the corresponding log file.

rnews was primarily designed to accept UUCP feeds, and my guess is that
stdout or stderr messages would not do quite what you'd want there.
Likewise with a different exit status.  I suppose we could add a flag to
rnews saying "I'm not trying to do UUCP, please report problems like an
interactive program."

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