Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!duke!wolves!ggw From: ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews - A small assist for managing complex sys files Message-ID: <1991Feb24.023410.5490@wolves.uucp> Date: 24 Feb 91 02:34:10 GMT References: <1991Feb22.034319.9805@wolves.uucp> <1991Feb23.064618.6167@looking.on.ca> Organization: Wolves Den UNIX Lines: 28 X-Checksum-Snefru: 891648df bb04d604 c3633a05 9c828679 <1991Feb23.064618.6167@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton): >If your sys file is that complex, you should really be feeding with >dynafeed. It's in uunet:~/ClariNet/dynafeed.tar.Z > >This gives newsgroup by newsgroup control of the feeding, remote control, >and best of all, automatic remote control based on arbitron-like output >from the recipient site. Brad, I appreciate your eagerness to promote your software, but not all the world is on UNIX systems or on systems where they can simply plug in some package and hope it will "go", feeding gateways to other networks and systems other than fairly vanilla B- or C- news derived systems is not helped by dynafeed. If you can convince Waffle and FSUUCP and all the DOS-based newsreaders and news consumers to support the dynafeed messages, then I will look at it again. You're a nice guy (at least you seem that way, even in the flesh) but just a bit to flip on the delivery of your solution "pronouncements". You might qualify as a real net.god, but don't forget the net.feet.of.clay. -- Gregory G. Woodbury @ The Wolves Den UNIX, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...mcnc!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw%wolves@mcnc.mcnc.org [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]