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From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Separating news and mail with UUCP
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Date: 22 Jan 91 15:49:36 GMT
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In article <1019@iiasa.UUCP> wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net (Wolf PAUL ) writes:
> 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?
> >
> 
> Since we have source to uucp, we added a switch to uucico to poll as a
> different name; however, without source you could just create a shell
> script which changes the node name, runs uucico, then resets the node
> name to the "normal" name.

Any modern-ish uucp can do this anyway.  Modern-ish covers almost any
UKUUCP, 4.3bsd, SVR3.*, SVR4, SunOS4.1.  I have a feeling you can't do
it with SunOS{3.*,4.0}.  HoneyDanber derived UUCPen (those with Systems,
Permissions, etc) set MYNAME=whatever in the Permissions file.  It's
easier to configure if BOTH ends have two names.

ian