HOWTO email articles to and from chinese.*/tw.bbs.* =================================================== by Nelson Chin, cyl@ifcss.org, v1995.06.06 A stable way of posting your BIG5 articles or cross-posting those from tw.bbs.* USENET hierachy or the BBS equivalent sites onto chinese.* newsgroups, is to email to the big5-to-hz and email-to-usenet gateways at csie.nctu.edu.tw in the format (See appendix A for samples): news.group.name%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw Be sure that your BIG5 articles can reach the big5-to-hz gateway uncorrupted for successful conversion to HZ. You can test this by emailing a sample article to yourself from the host you're planning to post the BIG5 articles from, in the format: login.name%host.name@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw Do not use this method at your host if you don't get a successfully converted HZ article returned back to you in your testing. See Appendix B for other conversion solutions for your email or posting needs. Also you may want to change the reply-to: to your actual email address without the h2b.csie.nctu.edu.tw extension if you don't want replies coming back to you in BIG5, or if the replies are unintelligible due to unclean link from h2b.csie.nctu.edu.tw to your site. Appendix A ---------- chinese.newsgroups.announce%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.newsgroups.discussion%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.newsgroups.newusers%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.newsgroups.answers%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.test%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.comp.software%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.talk.misc%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.talk.politics%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.rec.misc%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw chinese.rec.sports%usenet@b2h.csie.nctu.edu.tw Appendix B ---------- 1. to send uuencoded gb or big5 article as mime encoded gb or big5: login.name%host.name%mme@uud.csie.nctu.edu.tw 2. to send mime encoded gb or big5 article as uuencoded gb or big5: login.name%host.name%uue@mmd.csie.nctu.edu.tw 3. to send hz article as uuencoded big5: login.name%host.name%uue@h2b.csie.nctu.edu.tw 4. to send hz article as mime encoded big5: login.name%host.name%mme@h2b.csie.nctu.edu.tw 5. to send uuencoded big5 article as hz: login.name%host.name%b2h@uud.csie.nctu.edu.tw 6. to send mime encoded big5 article as hz: login.name%host.name%b2h@mmd.csie.nctu.edu.tw Acknowledgement --------------- Thanks to Shih-Kun Huang (skhuang@csie.nctu.edu.tw) for providing the gateways.