Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN (code 101) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: grading in uucico Message-ID: <264@down.FUN> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 09:58:02 EDT Article-I.D.: down.264 Posted: Fri Aug 3 09:58:02 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 03:28:09 EDT References: <5917@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: The Official Fun Machine of Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 23 Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam proposes adding an option to uucico that disables low priority work requests. (The priority of a request is given by the grade character in the work files.) Brian, Dave and I (i.e. honey danber) considered this option (i.e., at least one of us gave it some thought) and rejected it, for the same reason we rejected several other proposed features: other tools can provide the same functionality. (If you read between the lines, you can glean some of our basic philosophy.) In fact, the princeton -> astrovax connection has the characteristics described: princeton passes mail on demand but batches news and prepares the file transfer during off-peak hours (out of crontab). I suspect this is a general solution to Piet's problem. Some asides: grade characters have full support in honey danber; low grade jobs (e.g., news) are transmitted last by the sender and executed last by the receiver. (A tip of the honey danber hat to Mark Horton.) Yes, we shed the kernel packet driver support. Bugs.uucp has traditionally served a broader function than just bug reports, but unix-wizards seems a reasonable place as well. Finally, I am informed that honey danber will be released this summer. Peter Honeyman