Acbosgd.2053
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Wed Feb 17 21:39:04 1982
Re: netnews clogging up the uucp directory
We've noticed the clogged UUCP problem here too, especially since we have
a small spool directory which, until recently was over half filled with
/usr/spool/news.  I think I have a solution which any central site on the
net (the ones that need it most) can install after the distribution without
breaking any protocols.  Basically, instead of doing
	<create article> | uux - yoursys!rnews
it would do something like
	uux 'yoursys!rnews < mysys!/usr/spool/news/newsgroup/25'
which should avoid the disk copy.  (This is kind of like the -c option
to uucp.)  A couple problems have to be solved - the expiration date
stuff would be broken by this without a minor convention change (currently
expiration dates are defaulted when the article is stuck in the local
news spool dir, this would have to be changed to default it at the
time the expire program is run instead).  Also, we have to figure out
how to get the above syntax to work.  But it's high priority for after
the distribution.  If someone wants to work it out first we'd be grateful.

	Mark