Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: grading in uucico Message-ID: <5922@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 08:22:48 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.5922 Posted: Mon Aug 6 08:22:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Aug-84 05:23:10 EDT References: <5917@mcvax.UUCP> <264@down.FUN> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 20 <...> >....passes mail on demand but batches news and prepares the >file transfer during off-peak hours.... That's the scheme we follow, but still... Basically you're right, Peter, that this could solve the problem. However, it doesn't in all cases. It will only work when you can be sure to handle the news stuff every night. Almost the opposite is the case here at mcvax: we can never be sure that setting up a link to decvax/philabs will succeed every night or even get as far as transferring news. So there we are: news has been batched up at the other side for us to transfer during nighttime, but we don't succeed in getting it; so the next try (during daytime, meant for mail only) will get us that news, without us having a possibility to prevent that. That's why I added that grading in uucico and kept it after switching to batching. -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet