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From: ssb@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: nntpsnarf?
Message-ID: <10809@quest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 00:39:02 GMT
Reply-To: ssb@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson)
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Organization: Quest Research Inc., Burnsville, MN
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  I'm looking for a way to give myself a backup ihave/sendme feed via
UUCP from a machine that has access to an NNTP server.
  Ideally I'd like to do this in 2 steps:
	1) The intermediary machine connects to the server and uses
	"newnews" to get a list of new article ids.
	The list of ids gets packaged as a "ihave" message to
	my machine and is sent via UUCP.
	2) The remote machine sends a list of wanted articles to
	the intermediary which connects to the server, picks up
	the articles and creates batches which are queued to come
	to the remote.
  I'm inclined to think that the first step could be done fairly
simply with a shell script and telnet, but the second portion
seems a bit more involved - perhaps only because I'm not that
much of a wiz with NNTP.
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Scott S. Bertilson   ...ssb@quest.UUCP
			scott@poincare.geom.umn.edu