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List:       freebsd-isp
Subject:    Re: Looking for tool to post usenet from batches
From:       Bill Vermillion <bill () bilver ! magicnet ! net>
Date:       2000-01-25 18:42:02
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:24:35PM -0500, Thus Spake Andrew Webster:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Stuart Henderson wrote:

> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:55:13AM -0500, Andrew Webster wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking fora tool to post usenet news batches received
> > > from a UUCP client using "post", not "ihave".

> > I think "suck" has something that should let you do this.
> > Or the client could run Newscache (unix) which has a download
> > mode, I think it's written by someone in Austria (this is not
> > the same as NNTPCache, which although similar doesn't let you
> > download a batch). That would allow them to choose groups
> > dynamically.

> I've been using suck to feed the uucp client, but the rpost
> program doesn't understand a batch à la rnews, but rather it wants
> a list of article numbers, similar to the way inn presents them.

I just pointed the rpost to the same list of article numbers that
sendbatch used but with another name. Since it's a small feed I've
never moved out of cnews. Does this apply here.

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Bill Vermillion   bv @ wjv.com 


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