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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Separating news and mail with UUCP
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.214528.2208@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 19 Jan 91 21:45:28 GMT
References: <157yV1w163w@mantis.co.uk>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <157yV1w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>I'd like to be able to poll for mail every hour or so, but only poll for
>news three times a day (when the phone charges are off-peak.)
>
>Is there any standard or recommended way of doing this?
>
>[ Sorry if it's a stupid question... ]

Not at all a stupid question.

I published the solution under the rubric of "Alice and the Walrus" in
Vol 1, #2 of "The GURU", a new publication for *nix folk (Vol 1, #4) 
is just now being mailed out.

Call 1-800-527-GURU, or write to John Esak in care of CompuServe by
addressing your mail to:
	76703.746@compuserve.com
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 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341