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Re: Two-hop UUCP feed with C-news

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From: Ian Dickinson
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:14
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In article <1992Nov22.214026.14662@tigger.jvnc.net> aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net (Vikas Aggarwal) writes:
>Does anyone have a 'viaftp' sender ? I know that its easy to write,
>but I guess handling of failed FTP's would require some thought,
>and if someone's already done it, it would help.

No viaftp I'm afraid...
but I've done a similar thing with "some other unnamed file transfer mechanism"
and it worked well.  I've also heard of some people using rdist too.
If you want to do this, look into bftp since it will handle retries etc.

Cheers,
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From: cudep@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Two-hop UUCP feed with C-news
Date: 23 Nov 1992 11:14:31 -0000
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