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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: ihave/sendme
Message-ID: <7442@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 19:57:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 19:57:13 1985
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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> As a peripheral issue to stargate and phone news transmission, maybe it
> is time to get an efficient version of the ihave/sendme feature of news
> working properly.  I have never understood why the list of articles under
> consideration could not be transmitted in the body of one big control article
> rather than the headers of a bunch of little ones.
> 
BRL get's it's net news via a TCP based remote shell call (only one connection).
It's much easier when you have shell level interaction rather than merely file
transfer.

-Ron