Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7610 news.software.nntp:1290 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudep From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: News post queueing Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 16:05:33 GMT References: <1991Apr21.220747.12081@engin.umich.edu> <1991Apr22.152147.586@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Team Limpid's Pink Boy For Bob Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: thistle In article <1991Apr22.152147.586@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1991Apr21.220747.12081@engin.umich.edu> stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: >>Is there some way for the mini-inews program to not be forced to wait >>for the article, some way for it to send the article as a batch... > >I'm not sure about all the peculiar interactions with NNTP, but the idea >of making postings turn into local batches is being looked at. Running >mkhistory is typically a rare event, but there are other reasons why things >can lock up for a while. This was the consensus a few months ago when I asked. This is the mod to the tail end of inews I made... $ diff inews.old inews 324c324,327 < relaynews $relayopts -s $exclusion -d "$debug" <$censart --- > # relaynews $relayopts -s $exclusion -d "$debug" <$censart > (echo "#! rnews `wc -c $censart | awk '{print $1}'`" > cat $censart) | > rnews The line numbers are probably wrong for most people since I'm not fully patched up yet. It works fine once the users realise it may take a short while for the article to appear. Even longer if you use trn or similar :-( -- \/ato. Ian Dickinson. / /// Send your dollars, Homeboy, \\\ \ /'\ /`\ vato@warwick.ac.uk ( ((( I'm a Pink Foetus for "Bob" ))) ) /^^^\/^^^\ vato@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk \ \\`------X.500-Check-me-out-----'// / /TWIN/TEATS\ @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson / \