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From: stuart@sesame.UUCP (Stuart Freedman)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Re: limiting news to certain hours of the day?
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 21:01:05 EDT
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>     o Simply don't queue up anything until the evening hours, and have
>     your upstream feed (only the main feed has to do it -- I've found that
>     even with 8 or 9 local feeds running into my site it doesn't really
>     bother things much) do it as well. If your site generates the batches
>     at 8PM and again at midnight or some such, and you poll that site every
>     hour or two, the chances are VERY good that you'll get all your news by
>     the time you get in for work the next morning. If they simply don't
>     batch it up during the day, you don't need to worry abou it. Using the
>     'F' protocol in the sys file will keep them from using a lot of disk.

Having your news feed do their batching at certain times is a very good
control on when you get news.  We do it at ncoast and it has cut down on
problems with news polling at the wrong hours.
-- 
Stuart Freedman
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