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Essentially, robomoderators, moderation support programs, and mail to
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news gateways are all the same thing. They take an incoming message,
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from either an MTA or from a user filtering program like procmail, or
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perhaps even directly from a user's MUA, perform a variety of rewrites
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required to turn an RFC 822 message into an RFC 1036 message, possibly
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perform a variety of checks and additional rewrites suited to the
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particular application, and then hand the message off to a news
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server. News to mail gateways just do exactly the same thing in
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reverse.
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This is an attempt to generalize out the framework, so that people
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don't have to keep writing the same code to read e-mail messages, post
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messages, send e-mail messages, and do the common rewrites, and
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instead can concentrate on the *interesting* parts, namely the checks
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and rewrites they need for their specific application. News::Gateway
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is *not* a robomoderator or gateway in and of itself. Rather, it's a
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toolkit for *building* robomoderators and gateways that attempts to
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take care of all of the nitpicking details for you and drastically
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decrease the amount of code you have to write.
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