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From: karl@naitc.uucp (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: ihave/sendme problems and fixes
Summary: I've done this (delayed IHAVE/SENDME) and it works great
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.135808.13159@naitc.uucp>
Date: 2 Jul 90 13:58:08 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.222640.12674@sceard.Sceard.COM> <1990Jun29.181256.3508@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: karl@naitc.chi.il.us (Karl Denninger)
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In article <1990Jun29.181256.3508@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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.

We've done this with some of the stuff.... it seems to work.

All it took was a couple of cron scripts.


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