Subj : NZ.TEST
To   : vorlon
From : Oli
Date : Thu Feb 11 2021 12:43 pm

vorlon wrote (2021-02-10):

 v>>> Great. MBSE is a option for you if you can't get soupgate
 v>>> doing what you want. Although it's a full BBS package, you
 v>>> could just use it to do the news gating.

 Ol>>> It's also not doing the gating right (see my the reply to
 Ol>>> Avon's first reply), better than soupgate though.

 v> Send in a pacth then. #-)

Isn't that the responsibility of the user? ;-P I'm not feeding these wrong messages to the public network. I cannot fix everyone's broken software.

 Ol>> I still would love to see something that is as simple to use as
 Ol>> soupgate (without being a complete BBS+everything package) and as
 Ol>> competent as fidogate.

 v> The quickest way would be to fix the bugs in soupgate.

Thought about it. The problem is that there is a lot of stuff that is missing. Echomail to netnews is not that difficult. The other way around, parsing an RFC5322 message is much more complex than an FTN packet. Soupgate does not even try to parse netnews messages properly. Since it's last release it only have got more complicated. I think it's best to use a tested library for this and at this point I think it's easier to start from scratch than to bend the old code base around this or be limited to a C library.

Others with better C skills than me might disagree. I would love to see an improved Soupgate, but looking at other (better known, but still abandoned) FTN software projects, I doubt it will happen.

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