Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ihave/sendme problems and fixes
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.181256.3508@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jun28.222640.12674@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 18:12:56 GMT

In article <1990Jun28.222640.12674@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>It would appear that ${NEWSBIN}/batch/batchsplit has a problem with
>ihave/sendme.

As noted in newsbatch(8), ihave/sendme batch processing is pretty much
a kludge that happens to work tolerably well.  Mike has some good thoughts
on making it work better; I plan to take a look at them for inclusion
in the official distribution.

Just in case people are curious, another thing which is more or less on
the list for ihave/sendme is an idea some folks hereabouts came up with:
delayed ihave/sendme, so that an ihave/sendme used as a backup feed won't
pass zillions of articles just because the main feed was a bit slow today.
-- 
"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
must be changed."  -John K. Ousterhout |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry