timd@binary.UUCP (Tim Daniels @ Binary Systems) (01/09/91)
I have a question that hopefully one of you XENIX gurus can help with. It seems that after I recieve my news from my feed, that RNEWS sends back acknowledgemnets for each article. Needless to say this really annoys my feed, cause they get about 1024 messages a night. I have looked through the software and DOC and can't find where it says anything about this. Does anyone have any ideas ? Tim
grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) (01/10/91)
I tried mailing my response, but it bounced. timd@binary.UUCP (Tim Daniels @ Binary Systems) writes: >It seems that after I recieve my news from my feed, that RNEWS sends back >acknowledgemnets for each article. Needless to say this really annoys my feed, >cause they get about 1024 messages a night. I have looked through the software >and DOC and can't find where it says anything about this. In their (not yours) sysfile (probably /usr/lib/news/sys) they have line stating your machine name and what groups they feed you and the command that does the feeding. The command probably looks like uux - -z -r your_feed!rnews The -z option tells uux to notify them of a successful transfer. Tell them to remove it and they'll stop getting those acknowledgements. fred
grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) (01/10/91)
>timd@binary.UUCP (Tim Daniels @ Binary Systems) writes: >>acknowledgemnets for each article. Needless to say this really annoys my feed, >>cause they get about 1024 messages a night. I have looked through the software 1024 ? Wow. Tell them to batch their newsfeed as well. I recently got cnews running under Xenix. Is there any interest in my posting comments on what is needed, and the build.def file I used ? fred