Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!tale From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Painful interactive posting response from C news Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 15:18:14 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY Lines: 6 Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu The answer is simplere than that to avoid delays on the lock file. Simply do not call relaynews directly from anywhere in inews. Depending on how you are set-up to process in.coming/, either rnews or newsspool is a suitable alternative. -- (setq mail '("tale@rpi.edu" "uupsi!rpi!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))