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In <47e4wB4w164w@cellar.org> toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps) writes:
>have to ask: why hasn't this already happened?
As others have pointed out, there are two major packages that do this
already, and they have been available for >1 and >2 years.

>Is it because the folks who write and maintain most of the news freeware
>hang out at big, fully Internetted sites, and thus don't have to worry about
>ugly UUCP connections for small tight-budget sites that have to maintain
>their net status carefully?
Sort of.  There are only so many hours in the day, and so much time that
mgmt usually lets you spend on this sort of stuff.  Is the general
populace served by a fast relaynews and nov, or by something which will
reduce email news administration by some fraction?

More importantly, unless you live in such an environment, it is hard to
really know what the right "solution" is.  If there are things that can be
done to make life easier for small tight-budget sites, the answers (at
least the first draft) will have to come from such places.

Finally, I believe the tools are already there.  Both C News and INN can
handle an arbitrary control message.  So, find out what your feed is
running and implement a new control message that changes your feed.
Include some moderate security.  It shouldn't take more than a day of
tinkering.  Then, ask your feed to install that one handler for you.
	/r$