Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: NEWS create command,how about /NOINQUIRE ? Message-ID: <8908081056.AA16726@uunet.uu.net> Date: 9 Aug 89 01:52:31 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS DiscussionReply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 41 Tim Russell writes -- (quoting me somewhere here) >|perhaps the answer is to use a different verb for an automatic "catch-up" of a >|client system to a particular server -- UPDATE springs to mind, but it is >|already used - how about: >| >| UPDATE/CLIENT [/SERVER=node] [/PROTOCOL=protocol] >| >|which would create all newsgroups currently held on the server which are not >|already defined on the client system?? > > I like this idea. It's one of the few things left that I'd really like to >see. It was getting to the point that I was going to set up an NNTP server >explicitly for the purpose of having our NNTP server send 'control' to it >to create new groups automatically. Glad I won't have to. I have now included UPDATE/CLIENT - now that I look at the code this is equivalent to NEWS> CREATE NEWSGROUP */SERVER=node/PROTOCOL=proto/INQUIRE/NOCONFIRM but a hell of a lot less to type in!! > In the same 'new newsgroup' vein - we have a problem. The NEWREGISTER >profile entry seems to be off by default, which seems terribly silly to me - >our users are supposed to wade through 497 groups to find new ones? I'd >like to see either a system-wide default profile (which would be preferable) >or a default of /NEWREGISTER=* for that entry. I've had mixed responses on this one - There are two solutions - V5.9 now supports a default NEWSRC file for first time users (NEWS_MANAGER:NEWSRC.TEMPLATE) to allow a system initial default. The second method is REG/SINCE=date which will pick out all newsgroups created since a nominated date. A variant of this is REG/RECORD which records today's date as a checkpoint. A subsequent call to REG/NEW will register you in all newsgroups created since the recorded date, and also record the current date as the new recorded date. Geoff Huston gih900@csc.anu.oz.au