Removal of unix-pc groups
Bruce D. Becker
bdb at becker.UUCP
Wed Dec 19 12:55:31 AEST 1990
In article <552 at hico2.UUCP> kak at hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes:
|[...]
|To fix unix-pc distribution problems, we almost need
|something like a "mini-backbone" subset, guarenteeing
|that unix-pc articles reaching one of the machines WILL
|reach the other machines, and not using att, uunet, or the
|internet. (providing a complete and fully redundant path)
Recently I created a point-to-point news distribution
system which uses email to send news batches and
which injects them into news at destination.
Because the mail system is the delivery agent,
primary and secondary mailing lists can achieve
effective long-distance propagation to bridge
over usenet gaps.
Any mailer system with a "pipe" function such
as sendmail or the patched version of smail2.5
will work fine at the receiving end.
The news batches are encoded in a manner similar
to, but more efficient than, uuencoded files.
Optional simple password encryption is provided
for those as needs it...
If such a system proves handy I can make it
available. Currently it runs on several platforms
besides the 3B1 (SysVr4, 4.3BSD), and I'll soon
have it working on Amiga UUCP as well...
Cheers,
--
,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario
a /i/ Internet: bdb at becker.UUCP, bruce at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
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