Aduke.824 net.news,NET.news utzoo!duke!swd Wed Jun 3 22:01:06 1981 doit now I propose the following protocol. 1) 'rnews -X ucbvax.1500 chico' will send the article ucbvax.1500 to chico. 2) 'rnews -Y chico' lets news know that the article whos header is on standard input is available from chico. When an article is rec'd, all systems are either sent the article as is done now, or a '-Y' uux request is sent if the system accepts such (this fact will be noted in the .sys file) and the article is bigger than a certain size (either wired in or also in the .sys file). When a system receives a -Y request, it decides if it wants the article. If it does, then it creates a file in the news directory which is empty, and returns a -X request. When the article comes in, it is put into the file. This protocol requires that three uux requests succeed. This could be cut down but putting enough information in the empty file to identify where the item is supposed to come from, and periodically running around and finding all such empty files that haven't been touched in a while, touching them, and generating a new '-X' request. I have already implemented the '-X' code. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.