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From: faunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Doug Faunt)
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Subject: Re: News Feeds via Node Hop
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Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 20:42:46 EDT
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In article <18843@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>You can send batches with sendnews and uurec, it works just fine.
>Sendnews is written to generate the appropriate batch format for uurec
>to eat and process, which will also transit the mail system untouched.
>The only limitation is that you can't send *compressed* batches,
>because the mail system does not guarantee 8 bit integrity. The point
>of the mechanism is to accomplish exactly what was asked for, i.e.
>getting news through a site without forcing them to participate in the
>USENET.

I'm guessing that one uses sendbatch with a .cmd file to generate and
send off these batches.  I'd dearly love to be able to use the
sendbatch -c7 flag to make these files smaller, if possible.  
Does uurec know how to handle this?