[news.software.nntp] use of nntpxfer for backup feed

zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (03/19/90)

For various traffic/load reasons, we get a news feed via uucp.  I'd like to
use nntpxfer for a backup feed, ie, if an article doesn't make it here after
a few days, get it via nntpxfer.  Doing this would require a NEWNEWS command
modification that would allow specifying the "since" time *and* a "until"
time (ie, send a list of articles that arrived after time xxx and before yyy).
It looks like a simple modification to newnews.c - has anyone done it?  Any 
comments?

Has anyone done anything with batching and compressing articles before 
sending them via nntp?