Subj : Having an import only node
To   : Mike Tripp
From : Sean Rima
Date : Thu Oct 23 2003 07:39 pm

Hello Mike,

On 23/Oct/03 at 07:52 you wrote:

 MT> Hello Sean!

 MT> 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 :)

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

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

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

What happens is that the ISS (InterSquish) reads the squish area and presents 
it as a NNTP message but for some reason which I cannot understand it posts 
using packets :)


Cheers,
\Sean

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