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!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: grading in uucico Message-ID: <5917@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 12:49:23 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.5917 Posted: Tue Jul 31 12:49:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 01:26:40 EDT Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 38 <...> Consider the following problem: you want to frequently exchange mail with a site, but you don't want to place too heavy a load on your system by exchanging news (especially when batched) in the same sessions. So you want to exchange news only e.g. during nighttime. In fact uux (and uucp) already provide you with the basic feature to do so, viz. by using the grading option '-g'. So you can already assign different grades to mail and news files, but all that uucico does with that is send the files in the sequence determined by the grading. So what's needed next is to add a grading option to uucico too, so it will transfer only files upto a certain grade. This has been implemented in the European EUUG uucp distribution, but as far as I know in no other uucp software, including the honey danber version. The only problem here is that the option used for it ('-p') is inconsistent with uux and uucp. The reason is that '-g' is used in all sources for starting up the kernel packet driver when in g-proto debugging mode. But as far as I can tell no one really ever uses the kernel packet driver. And it seems that in the honey danber (will it ever be distributed?) version '-g' has been thrown out altogether. Questions are now: - are there other sites that feel the need for such an option? - would you prefer to use '-g' for it or something else? Furthermore I would like to make a proposal: One day the version as we run it here clashed with some other version, that had taken '-p' for other purposes. In order to avoid such problems in the future I would suggest that before anyone starts to use some as yet unused option he should post/discuss it on the net. BTW, I took unix-wizards to post this article to, since I know of no other group for this purpose; net.bugs.uucp is the only alternative, but that should really be reserved for bug reports. Suggestions? net.uucp? net.uucp.announce? -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet