From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 25 10:45:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.magicnet.net (bilver.magicnet.net [157.238.16.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3428415060 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:45:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA36873 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:42:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:42:02 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for tool to post usenet from batches Message-ID: <20000125134202.A36833@bilver.magicnet.net> References: <20000125164048.A97786@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@guardian.fortress.org on Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:24:35PM -0500 Organization: Vermillion Consulting Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message