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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle,news.software.b,fido.ufgate
Subject: Re: Moving news thru waffle node, with out decompression
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Date: 13 Jan 91 15:09:47 GMT
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anwyn@hrnowl.lonestar.org (System Operator) writes:
> 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

Node WAF doesn't have to have newsgroups on his board, but there's no
way to forward the compressed news batches without decompressing them,
unbatching them, and then rebatching them and recompressing them.  The
reasons for this are simple:

	1. Each site an article passes through must add its node name
	to the Path: header line.  Obviously, you can't do this to a
	compressed news batch.

	2. The intermediate site would have no way of knowing what was
	inside the news batch until it unpacked it, and thus would not
	know which messages to forward on to the next host.  (Yes, in
	this case you can assume that everything can be forwarded, but
	in most cases, it's not that easy.)

It's possible for the WAF node to use a time-based expire(8) program,
such as the Perl version written by Roy Silvernail.  In this case, you
would set the expire time to one day, and then you would only need a
minimal amount of space around for the news articles.

> 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?

No, you haven't missed anything.  You just can't do this with UFGATE.
Perhaps it's poor design; I'm more likely to believe it's just that
you're trying to do something that the Usenet software was never
intended to do.

No doubt, it's probably possible to kludge something up.  But I think
it would be easier to just use the software the way God intended it to
be used.

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