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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ihave/sendme problems and fixes
Message-ID: <1990Jul1.004204.5392@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jun28.222640.12674@sceard.Sceard.COM> <1990Jun29.181256.3508@zoo.toronto.edu> <MV0%=PC@b-tech.uucp>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 90 00:42:04 GMT

In article <MV0%=PC@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>Just in case people are curious, another thing which is more or less on
>>the list for ihave/sendme is an idea some folks hereabouts came up with:
>>delayed ihave/sendme, so that an ihave/sendme used as a backup feed won't
>>pass zillions of articles just because the main feed was a bit slow today.
>
>Several years ago someone posted a script that used at(1) to do this.

There are several ways of doing it, but some are better than others.
The obvious techniques all require tinkering with the feed sites, but
that can be avoided -- so all the funniness is at the recipient site,
where it belongs -- by being more clever.  Stay tuned.
-- 
"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
must be changed."  -John K. Ousterhout |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
