Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!druid!darcy From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Subject: Re: UUNET Funds C News Development Message-ID: <1991May29.124844.9496@druid.uucp> Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario References: <1991May28.174051.11313@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May29.013013.23820@looking.on.ca> Date: Wed, 29 May 91 12:48:44 GMT In article <1991May29.013013.23820@looking.on.ca> Brad Templeton writes: >Never missing the opportunity to do a plug, let me point out that if your >sys line is really complex, perhaps you should not use the SYS file and >feed with dynafeed instead. Or use gensys, a package I am just finishing up the final testing on. Should be available by the weekend. >With dynafeed you give the sites a .newsrc file, just like a reader on >your system, and the feeding program reads the .newsrc and feeds them >the "unread" news. They can change the .newsrc without your intervention, >and in fact can have it updated on a daily basis form their arbitron reports. Same idea I guess except that the list are automatically generated by what your users and your downstream users subscribe to. I default to checking the list once an hour instead of daily though. If you have a few levels of feed using the system and you also have bad timing it could take a few full periods to start the flow of a new group. >It is on uunet, in the ~ftp/clarinet directory. It's free in most cases. Don't know where it will be archived yet but it will be free in all cases. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | D'Arcy Cain Consulting | There's no government Toronto, Ontario, Canada | like no government! +1 416 424 2871 |