honey@down.FUN (code 101) (08/03/84)
Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam proposes adding an option to uucico that disables low priority work requests. (The priority of a request is given by the grade character in the work files.) Brian, Dave and I (i.e. honey danber) considered this option (i.e., at least one of us gave it some thought) and rejected it, for the same reason we rejected several other proposed features: other tools can provide the same functionality. (If you read between the lines, you can glean some of our basic philosophy.) In fact, the princeton -> astrovax connection has the characteristics described: princeton passes mail on demand but batches news and prepares the file transfer during off-peak hours (out of crontab). I suspect this is a general solution to Piet's problem. Some asides: grade characters have full support in honey danber; low grade jobs (e.g., news) are transmitted last by the sender and executed last by the receiver. (A tip of the honey danber hat to Mark Horton.) Yes, we shed the kernel packet driver support. Bugs.uucp has traditionally served a broader function than just bug reports, but unix-wizards seems a reasonable place as well. Finally, I am informed that honey danber will be released this summer. Peter Honeyman
piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) (08/06/84)
<...> >....passes mail on demand but batches news and prepares the >file transfer during off-peak hours.... That's the scheme we follow, but still... Basically you're right, Peter, that this could solve the problem. However, it doesn't in all cases. It will only work when you can be sure to handle the news stuff every night. Almost the opposite is the case here at mcvax: we can never be sure that setting up a link to decvax/philabs will succeed every night or even get as far as transferring news. So there we are: news has been batched up at the other side for us to transfer during nighttime, but we don't succeed in getting it; so the next try (during daytime, meant for mail only) will get us that news, without us having a possibility to prevent that. That's why I added that grading in uucico and kept it after switching to batching. -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet
lee@west44.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin) (08/12/84)
The UK - UUCP can also be asked to transfer work for particular grades. It has the old -g<char> flag to queue work at a particular grade, the grade is honoured at both the sender and reciever ends. It also has the -O<char> flag which can be given to uucp, uux, uucico and uupoll which will cause only files queued at that grade to be transfered. Also since it was the UKUUCP which clashed with Piet's I second discussing any additional flags on the net but we may as well keep all uucp discussions in net.bugs.uucp. Finally a plug for UKUUCP. It is available, hopefully at least one neighbour of most sites will have a copy and should be willing to pass it on. It should prove to be particularly usefull to JANET sites since they can use the net to transfer over. LMCL. -- -------------- Lee McLoughlin <UK>!ukc!lmcl, west44!lee UKUUCP support.