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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked?
Keywords: news, rnews, uucp
Message-ID: <15180@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 17 Feb 90 23:26:22 GMT
References: <239@cmic.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@mysite.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <239@cmic.UUCP> garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) writes:
>I would like to hold all incoming news until late at night (even though
>it may be received at all times during the day), before unpacking it (using
>rnews).
>
>However, I'm unwilling to just stall the whole uucp system that long. Mail
>that comes in should be immediately unpacked. I'm using a HDB based uucp
>on an HP 9000/370 running HP-UX 6.5.

Jonathan Bayer points out one way, which is to front end 'rnews' with
a program of your own that waits till evening before letting the real
unbatcher do its thing.  The only reason I don't like this is that it
lets the batches sit around in your spool directory all day, and also
makes you pay for downloading them in daytime when you don't really want
the contents till later.

Another, perhaps simpler approach is to fine tune the *grade* of UUCP
traffic you collect during the day.  Many feed sites queue news batches
with a lower grade than mail; if you're not sure whether your feed
sites do this, ask their news admins.  Mine does, so I can say this in
my HDB 'Systems' file:

	uunet Any/C,Any1900-0700 ACU 2400 5551212 "" \d\r Host UUNET ...

This lets me transfer grade C or better (including mail and filecopy)
around the clock, but anything else only from 7pm-7am.  

For more info about this stuff, peruse the Nutshell handbook on Managing
UUCP and Usenet.  Wotta tome :-)