dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (01/25/85)
We're kinda short of disk space, and if we feed news to anyone, then articles pile up in /usr/spool/uucp waiting to go to that site. Why shouldn't uucp be able to be told to take the articles from where they reside in /usr/spool/news? Certain information would have to be stripped off and replaced by inews upon receipt, of course (Xref, Date-Received, and so on). Will inews do this correctly anyway? What problems would such a scheme introduce? (We're running 2.10.2 on a Perkin-Elmer 3220 under v7.) Dave Sherman The Law Society of Upper Canada -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave
spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (01/27/85)
In article <333@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes: >We're kinda short of disk space, and if we feed news to anyone, then >articles pile up in /usr/spool/uucp waiting to go to that site. >Why shouldn't uucp be able to be told to take the articles from where >they reside in /usr/spool/news? Certain information would have to be >stripped off and replaced by inews upon receipt, of course (Xref, >Date-Received, and so on). Will inews do this correctly anyway? >What problems would such a scheme introduce? >(We're running 2.10.2 on a Perkin-Elmer 3220 under v7.) Most of the sites in Atlanta do exactly this -- transfer directly from the news articles themselves. We use the "xfernews" suite of programs. Two of the sites to which gatech feeds news are P-E systems running 2.10.2 news. I'm sure there are other systems around the country doing the same. We snarfed our copy of the net many moons ago. I'll mail a copy of the xfernews software to anyone asking; if I get more than 5 requests, I'll post it to net.sources instead. -- Gene "6 months and counting" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf
jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen) (01/29/85)
Xrefnews is fine if used on local (free) telephone lines. On long distance lines, however, it would be very important to be able to batch and compress the news. As fas as I know xrefnews has nothing to support that. So xrefnews saves the disk space of our server by increases our phone bill by at least 50% each month. Any *real* solutions to the problem out there? Juha Heinanen USL, P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-433, tel. (318)231-5345 UUCP: {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!jih ARPA: usl!jih@ut-sally CSNet: usl!jih%ut-sally.ARPA@csnet-relay -- Will this be appended?
glc@akgua.UUCP (G.L. Cleveland [Lindsay]) (02/02/85)
>Xrefnews is fine if used on local (free) telephone lines. On long >distance lines, however, it would be very important to be able to batch >and compress the news. As fas as I know xrefnews has nothing to support >that. So xrefnews saves the disk space of our server by increases our >phone bill by at least 50% each month. Any *real* solutions to the >problem out there? If you are a server to 14+ sites, it save you a *lot* of disk space! It would seem the "best" solution is to support an in-line compress/decompress protocol in uucp. That way, not only would the news articles be automatically compressed at the time of transmission, but *all* data transmitted by uucp could be compressed with no action needed on the part of any user. How about it? Any hackers out there implemented a "Z" protocol which perhaps uses the 2.10.2 compress/decompress program? Cheers, Lindsay Lindsay Cleveland (...{ihnp4|mcnc|sdcsvax|clyde}!akgua!glc) AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga (404) 447-3909 ... Cornet 583-3909