Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews batch times
Message-ID: <1989Oct15.000634.7845@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Oct14.175920.14722@daver.UU.NET>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 89 00:06:34 GMT

In article <1989Oct14.175920.14722@daver.UU.NET> dlr@daver.UU.NET (Dave Rand) writes:
>Is there an easy way, under C news, to control the time that
>batching is done for certain sites? Under B news, of course,
>one simply scheduled a sendbatch sitname at at certain time...

C News "sendbatches" optionally takes site names as arguments, in which case
only those sites are looked at.	

This mechanism isn't perfect, because it doesn't offer any easy way to say
something like "batch for everybody *except* uunet".  However, a shell file
or two built on top of sendbatches can do that or anything else you want to
do.  I decided that was a better approach than me trying to anticipate all
the oddball requirements of unusual sites.
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