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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: news forwarding
Message-ID: <1987Nov29.035815.5004@lsuc.uucp>
Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 03:58:14 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1987Nov29.035815.5004
Posted: Sun Nov 29 03:58:14 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 03:06:49 EST
References: <2054@dasys1.UUCP> <1597@ems.Ems.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Xref: utgpu news.software.b:929 news.admin:1289 news.sysadmin:438
Summary: why not just hack up a fake rnews or cunbatch?

In article <1597@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> mark@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>>Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full
>>news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to
>>another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting
>>it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
>	Shane McCarron (ahby@meccts.mn.org) and I (mark@ems.mn.org) are
>	currently working on just such a beast...
>	Suprisingly enough, we call the modification PASSBATCH and it
>	does just what you ask for.  It will only work on full feeds
>	and requires that a new key letter ('P') be put into the sys file
>	for the sites which you are passing batches to.

As a hack, why not simply have a script on your passing
site which just shovels the data back into the uucp queue?
Call it cunbatch, and the feeding site can treat the passing
site as a normal feed.  The only caveat is that the ultimate
target site would get Path: target!feed!... on postings, with
the passing site not showing up. So if target doesn't talk to
feed or run smail, replies through the Path: header might fail.
You could always hack inews on target to get around this.

But this saves you having to run any news software on the passing site.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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