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From: agod@agsc.sub.org (Andreas Godzina)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Up to the minute dial-up newsfeed
Keywords: C-news
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.012859.4886@agsc.sub.org>
Date: 28 Feb 91 01:28:59 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.024320.24820@looking.on.ca>
Organization: agsc Hannover, Germany
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In <1991Feb26.024320.24820@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

>Another idea is to change uucp's shell from uucico to a wrap-around program
>that starts up the batcher in the background and then calls uucico.  Only

I had the same idea and realized it this way: 
I periodically run a modified version of sendbatches which processes
only 2 batches so that there is always some work. If these 2 batches were
to small, my sendbatches will process more batches until du reports that
the spooldirectory is filled with more bytes than chosen with the size-field
of $NEWSCTL/batchparms.

When a machine logs in, I start a small program in the background which
delivers batched-smtp requests and starts the real sendbatches for this
machine, running in a loop.

It's far from ideal, but seems to work.
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