🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1994Jan7.152325.20784@cs.brown.edu>,
Michael P. Deignan <md@maxcy2.maxcy.brown.edu> wrote:
>I'm posting this hack to alt.sources, just in case anyone wants it (as
>some indicated they did.)
>
>--
>
>This program, "nntp_poll", allows directly-connected sites which use NNTP
>for newsreading to provide a newsfeed to a UUCP-connected host off their
>machine. For instance
>
>
>MACHINE A  <---NNTP NEWS LINK--->  MACHINE B  <---UUCP LINK---> MACHINE C
>
>
>This software allows 'Machine B' to provide a newsfeed to 'Machine C' by
>polling the NNTP host 'Machine A', transferring all new articles in the
>appropriate groups 'Machine C' wishes to receive, and then batching them
>for 'Machine C'.

Facilities for doing this are also provided in slurp

    Slurp is an advanced passive NNTP client for UNIX. It will connect
    to a remote NNTP server and retrieve articles in a specified set of
    Usenet newsgroups that have arrived after a particular date
    (typically the last time it was invoked) for processing by your
    local news system or forwarding on via UUCP to another news system.
    It replaces nntpxfer from the NNTP 1.5.11 reference implementation
    and nntpget from the INN distribution.

Available from ftp.demon.co.uk:pub/news/slurp/slurp-1.08.tar.Z

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Stephen Hebditch          TQM Communications         steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk