Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!neon!Gang-of-Four!weening From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: An interesting hack for nntp feeds Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 89 17:41:29 GMT References: <1081@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <89Dec19.120249est.2645@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: USENET News System Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca's message of 19 Dec 89 17:03:55 GMT In article <89Dec19.120249est.2645@neat.cs.toronto.edu> lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes: 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. The problem with this is that you still have to wait for the handshaking on each message: >>> IHAVE <7004@shlump.nac.dec.com> 335 Ok >>> . 235 Thanks. This is one of the things we are trying to avoid. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University