ssb@quest.UUCP (Scott S. Bertilson) (10/23/90)
I'm looking for a way to give myself a backup ihave/sendme feed via UUCP from a machine that has access to an NNTP server. Ideally I'd like to do this in 2 steps: 1) The intermediary machine connects to the server and uses "newnews" to get a list of new article ids. The list of ids gets packaged as a "ihave" message to my machine and is sent via UUCP. 2) The remote machine sends a list of wanted articles to the intermediary which connects to the server, picks up the articles and creates batches which are queued to come to the remote. I'm inclined to think that the first step could be done fairly simply with a shell script and telnet, but the second portion seems a bit more involved - perhaps only because I'm not that much of a wiz with NNTP. -- Scott S. Bertilson ...ssb@quest.UUCP scott@poincare.geom.umn.edu
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (10/23/90)
> I'm looking for a way to give myself a backup ihave/sendme feed via >UUCP from a machine that has access to an NNTP server. > Ideally I'd like to do this in 2 steps: > 1) The intermediary machine connects to the server and uses > "newnews" to get a list of new article ids. > The list of ids gets packaged as a "ihave" message to > my machine and is sent via UUCP. > 2) The remote machine sends a list of wanted articles to > the intermediary which connects to the server, picks up > the articles and creates batches which are queued to come > to the remote. The best thing would be to take nntpxfer (with my batching speedups) and separate the first and second parts of it. The first part is basically 1) and the second is 2). All you need is a few uux calls added. -- Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us