Repost: Check for or repost Usenet postings
Anton Ertl
program that checks another news server for these postings, and
optionally also reposts them there.
You can find repost on
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/programs/repost.fs
Usage information can be found at the start of the program.
It is Gforth-specific and has only been tested with gforth 0.6.2 and
one (maybe 1.5) news servers, and it expects a ~/Articles file in the
format created by xrn, so it is not very general. So most of you
probably only find it useful for educational purposes; in particular,
it directly talks to an NNTP server (Marcel Hendrix has written more
software in this vein, though).
- anton
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Wayne
<an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> My news server failed to propagate some of my postings, so I wrote a
> program that checks another news server for these postings, and
> optionally also reposts them there.
>
> You can find repost on
>
> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/programs/repost.fs
>
> Usage information can be found at the start of the program.
>
> It is Gforth-specific and has only been tested with gforth 0.6.2 and
> one (maybe 1.5) news servers, and it expects a ~/Articles file in the
> format created by xrn, so it is not very general. So most of you
> probably only find it useful for educational purposes; in particular,
> it directly talks to an NNTP server (Marcel Hendrix has written more
> software in this vein, though).
>
> - anton
I too have been noticing things, I think I saw it reported that over 40
new posts as were available this morning and only 12 were received. I
seem to miss posts sent to me that might even get quoted. I do not know
the problem, but now suspect it could be some kind of block list in my
security software (which I am going to look at) or ISP (which is difficult
to get them to do any thing but quote an inappropriate unsuitable verbal
info script that makes them look like they did not even really read the
question). However, you mentioned that your utility is limited, is there
any other utilities available out there?
Many thanks
Wayne.
Anton Ertl
>I too have been noticing things, I think I saw it reported that over 40
>new posts as were available this morning and only 12 were received. I
>seem to miss posts sent to me that might even get quoted. I do not know
>the problem, but now suspect it could be some kind of block list in my
>security software (which I am going to look at) or ISP (which is difficult
>to get them to do any thing but quote an inappropriate unsuitable verbal
>info script that makes them look like they did not even really read the
>question). However, you mentioned that your utility is limited, is there
>any other utilities available out there?
Probably. Depending on where the blocking or loss happens, I would
try another news server (e.g., news.eternal-september.org) or google
groups, or try another newsreader, or try reading news from another
machine (e.g., an Internet cafe) and see if you see additional
messages.
Wayne
<an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Wayne <news_putmy...@optusnet.com.au> writes:
>> any other utilities available out there?
>
> Probably. Depending on where the blocking or loss happens, I would
> try another news server (e.g., news.eternal-september.org) or google
> groups, or try another newsreader, or try reading news from another
> machine (e.g., an Internet cafe) and see if you see additional
> messages.
>
> - anton
Yes Anton, thanks. I looked through the software last night and turned
off everything that I could find that maybe related (running multiple
packages). I will likely try to delete the post history structure next.
I have a full integrated system, so makes management really easy, but if
it has to go, it has to go, as Chuck might also say.
I have been interested in starting a newsgroup for forth related
processors, but it looks too time consuming for em at the moment, and
naming it so it parks next to forth.lang is also problematic.
A question Anton, I have had alt.comp.lang.forth on my list for years, but
nothing seems to come up there, would you know if that is defunct, or
removed?
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