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From: romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: How to call a system to send mail only and not news?
Message-ID: <764@pyrnj.uucp>
Date: 3 Feb 88 03:20:39 GMT
References: <238@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: romain@pyrnj.UUCP (Romain Kang)
Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp, Woodbridge, NJ
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3B1's have some variant of honey danber uucp, exact revision
unknown.  The later models of HDB have grade-sensitive transfers,
which allow you to say something like
	 icus Any/C,Any2300-0600 ACU 1200 ...
in Systems.  This means that uucp jobs queued for icus at grade 'C' or
higher (specifically, grades [0-9A-C]) can be transmitted at any time.
Lower grades ([D-Za-z]) will only go out to icus between 11pm and 6
am.

Unfortunately, this does not work with earlier versions of HDB
(specific revs unknown).  4.3 BSD uucp incorporates a similar
mechanism.  Depending on your variant of uucp, uucico may have
a -g[grade] option that allows you to specify the lowest grade
job that you wish to transfer during a given transaction, i.e.,
	uucico -r1 -gB -sicus
I don't have up-to-date HDB available to me.  However, given -gB and
the L.sys line above, BSD uucico would decide that it's really OK to
transmit jobs down to grade 'C'.  Also, note that this only affects
what the MASTER system sends the SLAVE; the SLAVE cannot override
the maximum grade chosen by the master.

You should have the general idea, though.  Mail will go at a relatively
high grade (generally A-C), while news goes at a much lower grade
(typically 'd').  If it works, fine; if not, I'll be interested to hear
what your beast actually does.
--
Romain Kang			{allegra,cmcl2,pyramid,rutgers}!pyrnj!romain
Pyramid Technology Corp. /  10 Woodbridge Center. Dr /  Woodbridge NJ  07095

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