Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan
From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: inews mailing news without recording it
Message-ID: <205@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 12:57:28 GMT
References: <511@dutrun.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Keele, Staffs. U.K.
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From article <511@dutrun.UUCP>, by tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman):
> 
> In order to have news on a system without using the large disk space
> required, we have done the following:
> [....]
> So now we can read news, but we cannot post it. To do so, there are the
> following problems:
> 
> Inews needs to be changed, so that it does not write to the active file
> or tries to record news locally, but just mails the news to our real
> news node. It's temporary files cannot be put in /usr/spool/news, because
> that is mounted read only.

Why not use nntp?
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