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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How can I get my feed to send me a subset of the Full News Feed?.
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.145140.890@squirrel.mh.nl>
Date: 6 Aug 90 14:51:40 GMT
References: <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <3372@borabora.omni.com>
	<1990Aug06.020843.10532@brian386.uucp>
Sender: jv@squirrel.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
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In-Reply-To: news@brian386.uucp's message of 6 Aug 90 02:08:43 GMT


In article <1990Aug06.020843.10532@brian386.uucp> news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) writes:

> In article <783@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
> >Is there a "standard" method of getting a feed site to only send a subset
> >of a full news feed to us?. We don't want to drop full heirarchys as we
> >can in the 'sys' file [...]

I use a setup in which users send their .newsrc files to the server
system, and the server sends only those articles to the client for
which there are subscribed newsgroups. Effectivily cuts the amount of
data transmitted to below 10% for most sites, with a resolution per
newsgroup, not distribution.
I use this to feed some sites via UUCP.

It is one program, written in Perl, one line change to the sys file,
and a few lines in the hourly news daemon.
The current version has one bug: it does not take the "Path:" header
into account. This means you get a duplicate article for each article
you post yourself. Oh well.

Disclaimer: the program works for me, and may not do what *YOU* want
it to.

	Johan
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