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From: anwyn@hrnowl.lonestar.org (System Operator)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle,news.software.b,fido.ufgate
Subject: Moving news thru waffle node, with out decompression
Message-ID: <RT8iV1w163w@hrnowl.lonestar.org>
Date: 10 Jan 91 00:13:50 GMT
Organization: Horned Owl BBS, Houston Texas.
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Consider the following interesting news administration problem.
We have three nodes call them C, WAF, and UF. C is an unix site
running cnews. WAF is an MS-DOS site running WAFFLE 1.63. And
UF is an MS-DOS site running UFGATE. C is connected to WAF which
is connected to UF. It is not feasible to connect C directly to
UF because C has a telebit modem and UF does not and the administrator
of C objects to the long connect times that would result from a 2400
baud connection. Now the node UF wishes to receive certain newsgroups
from C. The node WAF is willing to act as an intermediary, however
node WAF does not want to have the newsgroups on his board and sees
no reason why they should be decompressed or kept any longer than is
necessary for transmission to UF. How may this be accomplished?

I am not a news expert, but I believe from reading _Managing UUCP and
Usenet_ by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino that the node C can get his
news to node UF by adding the following line to his "sys" file:

uf:newsgroups/all:f:uux - -z -r waf!uux - uf!rmail

(Waffle uux does not have a "-z" or "-r" switch.) (In the above
"newsgroups" represents a comma separated list of the newsgroups that
node UF wants.) The compressed news is sent to uux on node WAF that
in turn sends it to rmail on node UF. Of course the static file for the
WAFFLE node will have to have the line:

uuxqt : rmail rnews uux

to allow the uux command to be executed on node WAF. Is this correct
cnews experts? Have I made an error?

I have read the UFGATE documentation, but am unable to solve the converse
problem of getting news generated on UF back to node C. As I understand it
the ".C" ".DAT" and ".XQT" files for news will be generated by a program
called newsout. They will then be sent by a program called uuslave to
the remote system. But I can not find any command in the .CTL file or
switch on any of the programs that will alter the command to transmit
the compressed news to the remote system. Have I missed anything UFGATE
experts? Has anyone encountered such a problem before?

anwyn@hrnowl.lonestar.org