Re: Injecting blocked cleanfeed articles into the newsfeed

On May 21, 2025 at 5:21:04 PM CDT, "Nigel Reed" <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 21 May 2025 22:11:45 +0200
Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> wrote:
 

Nigel Reed wrote:
 

One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.

 
That won't work without modifying history (or waiting for the history
entries to expire and temporarily setting artcutoff high enough that
the messages are not rejected as "too old").
 
-thh

 
Apart from the some text and test groups, I do not expire articles.
artcutoff is 0. Again, Nobody seems to be able to answer the question
of how do I inject the articles back into the newsfeed.

The easiest tool to work with, in my opinion, is rnews. It is included with
INN. From the manpage:

       rnews injects either individual articles or UUCP-style article batches
       into a local or remote news server.  It submits articles via IHAVE and
       is suitable for injecting articles received from other sources; local
       postings should generally use inews(1) instead.  It is also used to
       process spooled messages created by, for example, nnrpd while innd is
       not available.