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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: nntpxmit "on demand"?
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.071013.23623@rpi.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 07:10:13 GMT
References: <786@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <786@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
David> We are an nntp leaf node and we probably generate fewer than 10
David> articles per day locally.  It seems like running nntplink would be
David> kind of overfill.  It seems like we could achieve the *idea* of
David> nntplink by running nntpxmit "on demand" i.e. every time an article is
David> posted.

So, have inews do it.  If you are running C News you could write it
into the inews shell script.  Otherwise it just seems that having cron
check every fifteen minutes or so for a batch will have to do; for ten
articles a day from a leaf node that should be fine.  As soon as it
hits the linkers it will be on hundreds if not thousands of sites
within the hour.

Dave
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