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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
date: 1997-08-02 04:12:00
subject: GIGO revisited

Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to All:
 MR> I used convsoup with the Vsoup package to convert the data
 MR> files to rnews  format, and GIGO tosses them appropriately. 
 MR> After discovering a fatal bug in  my mail tosser and setting
 MR> up another just to test, I found that GIGO also  finds the
 MR> .PKT files fine, and processes them apparently successfully
 MR> (for  outbound news articles).
 MR> Now, what do I need to do to get the news onto the news
 MR> server?  Is there an  option somewhere to generate a SOUP
 MR> reply packet, or something else entirely? 
Read the docs. Use Gigoslip to post news and email or one or the other. You 
need to set a flag in the config file to make sure that an appropriate output 
format is generated. Once that is set, then "gigoslip both"  should do it for 
you. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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