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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Why can't uucp transfer news articles from where they sit?
Message-ID: <11771@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 11:50:32 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.11771
Posted: Sun Jan 27 11:50:32 1985
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Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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In article <333@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>We're kinda short of disk space, and if we feed news to anyone, then
>articles pile up in /usr/spool/uucp waiting to go to that site.
>Why shouldn't uucp be able to be told to take the articles from where
>they reside in /usr/spool/news? Certain information would have to be
>stripped off and replaced by inews upon receipt, of course (Xref,
>Date-Received, and so on). Will inews do this correctly anyway?
>What problems would such a scheme introduce?
>(We're running 2.10.2 on a Perkin-Elmer 3220 under v7.)

Most of the sites in Atlanta do exactly this -- transfer directly from
the news articles themselves.  We use the "xfernews" suite of
programs.  Two of the sites to which gatech feeds news are P-E systems
running 2.10.2 news.  I'm sure there are other systems around the
country doing the same.  We snarfed our copy of the net many moons
ago.

I'll mail a copy of the xfernews software to anyone asking; if I get
more than 5 requests, I'll post it to net.sources instead.
-- 
Gene "6 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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