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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: limiting news to certain hours of the day?
Message-ID: <726@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 11:26:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: lsuc.726
Posted: Mon Jul 22 11:26:29 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jul-85 11:40:48 EDT
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Our system is heavily loaded during office hours and can't
handle the additional load of uuxqt/cunbatch/news-unpack/rnews
which news feeding causes. However, I don't mind a uucico
running, and in fact I like to have uucico running, so we
can get mail in and out of our system during the day.

Mark Brader (lsuc!msb) and I have been playing with a shell
script which would let us batch incoming news by sending it
to (say) /usr/spool/newsbatches/* and running the cunbatches
from there at night. Before we actually try this kind of
thing, has anyone done it already? Is there any other obvious
solution which will permit mail to work but gracefully prevent
news from running during the day?

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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