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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:42:02 -0500
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking for tool to post usenet from batches
Message-ID:  <20000125134202.A36833@bilver.magicnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001251320440.77302-100000@guardian.fortress.org>; from andrew@guardian.fortress.org on Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:24:35PM -0500
References:  <20000125164048.A97786@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001251320440.77302-100000@guardian.fortress.org>

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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.

-- 
Bill Vermillion   bv @ wjv.com 


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