mikej@lilink.com (Michael R. Johnston) (02/27/90)
At my site here I take in a major newsfeed from several sites and feed several other leaf nodes news as well. They in turn feed me their postings to me for passage onto the net. Getting their postings onto the net has turned into a problem for me since it would seem that in order for me to send their postings along to the net I would have to send ALL of the articles for a particular group that I receive to my feed sites. No? In simpler terms: How can I direct postings from a leaf site directly to the system/togo file for outgoing batching WITHOUT sending the entire group to a site? I can save a trememdous amount of transmission time if there is a way to do this. Thanks very much. -- Michael R. Johnston mikej@lilink.com Lilink Communications rutgers!lilink!mikej "Affordable Unix Solutions" (516) 285-4148
tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) (03/02/90)
Quoth mikej@lilink.com (Michael R. Johnston) in <1990Feb27.045320.17249@lilink.com>: | How can I direct postings from a leaf site directly to the system/togo | file for outgoing batching WITHOUT sending the entire group to a site? | I can save a trememdous amount of transmission time if there is a way to | do this. Please work this out ASAP. It is tiresome to be posting to /dev/null! Thank you. -- "I don't run - I tend to black my eyes." - D.Parton | hombre!marob!upaya!tbetz ----------------------------------------------------| tbetz@upaya.lilink.com "One minute I'm in the pasture porkin' ponies, | Tom Betz - GBS the next I'm a can of Mighty Dog!" - Secretariat | (914) 375-1510
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/04/90)
In article <1000@upaya.lilink.COM> tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) writes: >| How can I direct postings from a leaf site directly to the system/togo >| file for outgoing batching WITHOUT sending the entire group to a site? > >Please work this out ASAP. It is tiresome to be posting to /dev/null! Hmm, I guess this was general enough to be worth posting the answer to after all... There is no entirely direct way to do it, but one can get much the same effect by either (a) using the Ln flag to send only stuff posted within n hops of you, or (b) using the exclusion feature of the first field to send only stuff that has not passed through your main feed sites. (a) is probably the preferred solution for sites that really are leaf sites, while (b) is better if there are subtrees growing under those sites. -- MSDOS, abbrev: Maybe SomeDay | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology an Operating System. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu