Subj : Having an import only node
To   : Sean Rima
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Thu Oct 23 2003 08:52 am

Hello Sean!

22 Oct 03 23:27, Sean Rima wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SR>> Is it possible to have a node setup so that he can post to an
 SR>> area only, ie he gets on messages back from the echo.

 SD>> You'd probably have to set up something like FastEcho to do
 SD>> that... Squish won't do that itself, IIRC.

 SR> It is nothing major as it is only for a Squish nntp server :)

Why would anyone want to post to an area they can't read?

There's no simple switch or setup for what you want to do, but you could get 
there a number of ways.  You could have separate cfgs for IN and OUT runs, 
where the areas you don't want to scan are not included in the out pass.  You 
could use the echotoss.log parameter on runs and add a bit of batch logic to 
filter the toss-only areas' tags out of the echotoss.log before the OUT pass.
You could have duplicate versions of each area in seperate directories and toss 
to the "real" file and scan from an dummy "empty file", with a little directory 
rename magic going on in between to determine which is active for each run.

About the only way that =won't= work is running in single-pass mode (IN and OUT 
at the same time).  Which trick makes the most sense will be determined by how 
many "normal" usages you need to continue to support.

..\\ike

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