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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: An interesting hack for nntp feeds
Message-ID: <89Dec19.120249est.2645@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:03:55 GMT
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You could acheive a similar effect thing by using C news batching on the nntpd
at the remote end and telling it to look at an empty file instead of the real
history file.  The remote nntpd can easily be made to invoke rnews on the
resulting batch.

On a similar note, we decided here that we did not want our NNTP relay to do
any batching.  So we set up an NNTP feed to a machine with an NNTP daemon that
will accept anything (we pointed its notion of the history file at an empty
file).  By using C news batching, batches get created in the in.coming
directory.  One could of course feed those to news, but since we were in a
position where all batching feeds could take the same stuff, we simply feed
them directly to uux directly.

Of course this is only convenient if you can multicast the batches to the
sites (i.e. they all get the same stuff).  This has allowed us to avoid
running batching and outgoing UUCP on our news relay, and we share the load
another host handle UUCP feeds (said host only has to run nntpd, not the whole
news set-up).

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4