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From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: considerbatch - news batching disk space limiter
Message-ID: <ekgaI#4LMs8n=eric@snark.uu.net>
Date: 30 Jan 89 16:16:37 GMT
References: <3360@sugar.uu.net>
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In article <3360@sugar.uu.net>, karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> For sites running HoneyDanBer uucp that batch unique newsfeeds up for other
> sites, considerbatch can be used in your news crontab instead of sendbatch
> in order to limit the amount of queued-but-undelivered data for a site.

TMN-netnews has a 'Q' option to sendbatch that lets you set this check on
a per-feed basis, with (potentially) different minimum-free-block levels for
each feed.
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