chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) (06/04/91)
I'm running the uucp that comes with SCO OpenDesktop, which, from what I've heard, is a QuasiHoneyDanBer of questionable parentage. The challenge: art-sy's mail feed and news feed are the same. art-sy always initiates the call. Right now, art-sy polls during the wee smalls, because there's usually a couple of hours of news to get. I'd like to be able to poll during the day to get mail in and out, but I don't want to waste day connect time on news. What would be really nice would be a way to invoke uucico that said "transfer only jobs of grade N or higher" during the day, and leave other grades, like news, for later. Anybody know of such a trick? -- Chap Flack Their tanks will rust. Our songs will last. chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us -MIKHS 0EODWPAKHS Nothing I say represents Appropriate Roles for Technology unless I say it does.
bill@astph.UUCP (Bill Dripps) (06/06/91)
In article <9106041029.aa15659@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes: >I'd like to be able to poll during the day to get mail in and out, but I >don't want to waste day connect time on news. What would be really nice >would be a way to invoke uucico that said "transfer only jobs of grade N or >higher" during the day, and leave other grades, like news, for later. > >Anybody know of such a trick? Would it work to change your your machine name for news? Could your mail be addressed to ast-sy and your mail to art-sy.news? If you had two Systems lines - mailfeed & newsfeed - that were the same except for system name and calling times, and if you had seperate Permissions file entries which used different MYNAME's - art-sy & art-sy.news, would you be able to split your news feed from your mail? I have not tried this, but I wonder if it might work. Are there any uucp experts that might know? -- Bill Dripps | attmail!astph!bill | astph!bill@attmail.com | 814-234-8592 ext.31 | psuvax1!astph!bill | astph!bill@psu.cs.edu |