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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: UUNET Funds C News Development
Message-ID: <1991May29.124844.9496@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <JQY_QZ_@warwick.ac.uk> <1991May28.174051.11313@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May29.013013.23820@looking.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 12:48:44 GMT

In article <1991May29.013013.23820@looking.on.ca> Brad Templeton writes:
>Never missing the opportunity to do a plug, let me point out that if your
>sys line is really complex, perhaps you should not use the SYS file and
>feed with dynafeed instead.
Or use gensys, a package I am just finishing up the final testing on.
Should be available by the weekend.

>With dynafeed you give the sites a .newsrc file, just like a reader on
>your system, and the feeding program reads the .newsrc and feeds them
>the "unread" news.   They can change the .newsrc without your intervention,
>and in fact can have it updated on a daily basis form their arbitron reports.
Same idea I guess except that the list are automatically generated by what
your users and your downstream users subscribe to.  I default to checking
the list once an hour instead of daily though.  If you have a few levels
of feed using the system and you also have bad timing it could take a few
full periods to start the flow of a new group.

>It is on uunet, in the ~ftp/clarinet directory.  It's free in most cases.
Don't know where it will be archived yet but it will be free in all cases.

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