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From: gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Jim Gerland - Manager, User Support Services)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: SKIM and CREATE NEWSGROUPS questions
Message-ID: <29.25b6e3a0@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 14:53:36 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing Services, University at Buffalo
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background: news 5.9b vms 5.2 win/tcp 5.1 nntp between VAXcluster & Sun 

A few more questions:

(1) My news is not creating any news news groups by itself.  Should it?
    I can enter news and type CRE NEWS * /INQUIRE /SERVER=NEWS and it
    will prompt me for each one and on a "y" response, create it.  If
    this cannot be done automatically, how can I build a batch job to
    do this since it requires the "Y" response an unknown number of times?

(2) I have NEWSSKIM run every 4 hours to query the Sun newsserver for new
    articles (should new newsgroups be part of this?).  However, it does
    not update every group with every item.  For example, my Sun has over
    10 articles in rec.guns but my VAXhas only 1 after every SKIM.  If I
    type SET NEWS /SERVER=NEWS at the NEWS> prompt, it updates with every
    article /SINCE=TODAY.  Can someone explain why these are not the same?

Thanks,
Jim...