From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!fair
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: net.sources and other problems
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.653
Posted: Fri Jan 21 21:44:00 1983
Received: Mon Jan 24 05:43:19 1983

	Regarding shell scripts to process news:

	At ucbonyx, we get news from ucbvax over a 9600 baud Berknet link, and
when we had a delivermail alias to process the news as it came in, the
process table would overflow, and the system would grind away until the
deluge stopped. Heaven help users who were trying to use the system at that
time.
	Now we have a \very/ elaborate csh script that runs once a day at 0500
PST, and processes the articles one by one through uurec. It counts up errors
and Duplicate articles and mails a note to the `operator' when it is done.
This way news costs no more than delivering a letter, (plus some time at 0500),
and we have a handle on our errors as well.
	One error that is frequent and fixable is "inews: Inbound news is
garbled." 99% of those were articles which had return addresses so long that
inews overflowed the buffer. With some editing, they go through inews OK.

	As an alternate solution (i.e. simple) for sites that find news iss
grinding their systems into dust, create a mailbox for rnews and cat the whole
thing through uurec at some ungodly hour of the morning when nobody will
care. We're using 2.8 news, and have tested this. Uurec can handle multiple
articles at a time through a pipe.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@Berkeley
	ucbonyx system coordinator