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create-anonymous-text-old [59] (3) Obsolete (10)


    create-anonymous-text-old [59] (( text      : HOLLERITH;
                                      misc-info : ARRAY Misc-Info ))
            -> ( Text-No );

Similar to create-text-old, but the text is created with the author field set to zero. Not even the server has a record of who created the text.

The original intended use for this call was for importing texts from other sources, such as WWW, FTP or Gopher, but some clients include explicit support for sending anonymous texts to a server.

It is only possible to send anonymous texts to a conference with the right flag bit set.

The only Misc-Info items valid for this call in the misc-info array are recpt, cc-recpt, bcc-recpt (introduced in protocol version 10), comm-to and footn-to.

Example: 

        1 28 20HExample\nMessage body 3 { 0 5 1 112 2 33467 }
        :16 0 33502 13 16 15 16 6 97 3 196 1 0 1 20 0
            5 { 0 5 6 148 1 112 6 3438 2 33467 } 
        =1 33502

In this example, person 119 creates a text containing a subject and a one-line body. The recipient of the text is conference five, conference 112 is a CC recipient and the text is a comment to text 33467. The server reply indicates that the new text has been given number 33502. Finally there is an asynchronous message sent to all members of recipient conferences. Note how the message was sent before the reply to the client. The misc-info list in this message has two additional fields, the local numbers of the text in each of its recipient conferences.

Error codes

login-first
Login required before issuing this call.
string-too-long
The string text is longer than the maximum length of a message.
temporary-failure
The text could not be created at the moment.
no-such-text
Attempt to comment or footnote a non-existent or secret text.
not-author
Attempt to footnote a text authored by someone else.
footnote-limit
Attempt to footnote a text with the maximum number of footnotes already set.
comment-limit
Attempt to comment a text with the maximum number of comments already set.
access-denied
Attempt to send a text to a conference failed because no access to the conference or any super conference that will accept a text.
anonymous-rejected
Attempt to send an anonymous text to a conference that does not accept anonymous texts.
illegal-misc
Invalid misc-info list. A recipient is listed more than once or there is an unknown misc item in the misc-info list.