jh@mancol.UUCP (John Hanley) (02/02/88)
Manhat and mancol have been on the air for some time but weren't properly updated in the maps. (The last map entry I saw published for manhat dated from the days when it was our venerable PDP-11.) Hope there's no name conflict.... If anyone knows how "feed on demand" works, please let me know, as we are short on disk space and it would doubtless make feeding someone much less painfull. (The theory is, don't spool news for X until X polls you, which is a good tradeoff if CPU is cheap and disk is expensive.) We have excess modem and CPU capacity and are willing to set up uucp connections and news feeds to sites that will poll us. However, we are low on man-power to administer the whole mess, so bear with us if it takes a while to fix things. We will demand the password to ~news from any machine we feed to reduce setup confusion and "could you change this..." messages, and will give out a guest account so you can see how our /usr/lib/news files are set up and how rn is _supposed_ to work. I heartily recommend any other site setting up a feed to follow similar procedures, at least until it's working for a week. And now the map entries: (with whiter whites and commas in the right places) #N manhat #S AT&T 3b2/300; System V Release 2.0.5 3B2 Version 2 #O Manhattan College #C Mark Sinner, John Hanley #E mancol!mark, hanley@nyu.arpa, manhat!postmaster #T +1 212 920 0424 #P Manhattan College Computer Center, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471 #L 40 53 08 N / 073 54 05 W #U phri mancol #W manhat!jh (John Hanley); Mon Feb 1 20:25:38 EST 1988 #R Willing to offer news feeds via mancol. # manhat mancol(LOCAL), cmcl2(DIRECT), dasys1(DIRECT), djs(DEMAND), aecom2(DIRECT), hombre(DEMAND), magpie(DEMAND), marob(DEMAND) #N mancol #S AT&T 3b2/400; System V Release 2.0.5 3B2 Version 2 #O Manhattan College #C Mark Sinner, John Hanley #E mancol!mark, hanley@nyu.arpa, mancol!postmaster #T +1 212 920 0424 #P Manhattan College Computer Center, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471 #L 40 53 09 N / 073 54 05 W #U manhat #W manhat!jh (John Hanley); Mon Feb 1 20:25:38 EST 1988 #R #R We are willing to set up news feeds to systems used by a dozen or #R more users that will poll area code (212). We receive almost a full #R feed, with the exception of alt and soc. # mancol manhat(LOCAL), research(WEEKLY), swlabs(DIRECT), djs(DIRECT), marob(DIRECT)