Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!ron 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 Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7442 Posted: Wed Jan 16 19:57:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:48:09 EST References: <527@astrovax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 11 > 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