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From: mark@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: news forwarding
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 22:04:38 EST
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In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full
>news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to
>another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting
>it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

	Shane McCarron (ahby@meccts.mn.org) and I (mark@ems.mn.org) are
	currently working on just such a beast.  The code is done, and is
	going through some testing.  I have just finished fixing, what I
	think, is the last bug.  We will be testing it here in MN before
	sending it to Rick for inclusion in the Official News Patches.

	Suprisingly enough, we call the modification PASSBATCH and it
	does just what you ask for.  It will only work on full feeds
	and requires that a new key letter ('P') be put into the sys file
	for the sites which you are passing batches to.

	To give credit where credit is due, it was Shane's idea, I
	am just implementing it 'cause he is awfully busy right now :-)


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