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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News and ihave/sendme
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.070106.3572@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 90 07:01:06 GMT
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Mundelein, IL
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Question to the world, and the "C" news people:

I have a need to run a batched Ihave/Sendme link with a site.  This is bad
enough, but I ALSO want to delay the "ihave"s for 24 hours.  Ideally we
would send both the article list and resulting traffic (from the "sendme")
compressed, although it is not necessary to send the ihave's compressed (the
articles which return, however, in some cases could be LITERALLY a full feed
and thus must be in normal compressed format!)

The purpose of this is to provide closure in the event of a failure of news
distribution in our local area Usenet ring.  We don't want to send articles
around all the time, but if something breaks it would be nice to have the
system automatically recover.

Seeing as I've not played with Ihave/sendme much, and not at all with "C"
News, is there anyone out there who has (1) done this, and (2) has any
helpful hints on making it work?

Thanks in advance; Email is fine...

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Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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