kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) (02/25/91)
ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes: ><1991Feb23.064618.6167@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton): >>If your sys file is that complex, you should really be feeding with >>dynafeed. >...feeding gateways to other >networks and systems other than fairly vanilla B- or C- news derived >systems is not helped by dynafeed. >If you can convince Waffle and FSUUCP and all the DOS-based newsreaders >and news consumers to support the dynafeed messages, then I will look at >it again. Wait a moment. The receiving end doesn't *have* to send you back those subscription messages; Dynafeed can be used one-way only, where it simply provides the functionality of being able to turn ANY group on or off on demand. And the batching is totally configurable. You could even have dynafeed write to out.going/site/togo, and let the C-news batcher take care of it. Admittedly, in it's current form dynafeed itself needs to be on a unix system, or you'll have some shell scripts to port. -- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu University of Kentucky (606) 257-2975 Department of Mathematics "Never trust gimmicky gadgets" -- the Doctor