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