I have the following problem. The news server at my ISP (interlog.com) has
been intermittently, but too frequently down in the last few days and
weeks.
When the news server is down, mail cannot be received, or sent even
though I have the news option set as OFF.
What happens is that the process hangs as the connnection to the news
server times out.
The command line I use to send out replies is:
uqwk -m -n +L -RREPLIES
The flags have the following meanings:
-m Don't process mail (ie. new mail)
-n Don't process news (ie. new news)
+L Use Soup format
-R Process replies in file REPLIES
It is puzzling that uqwk would poll the news server even when it is not set
to do anything with it. Is this how uqwk was designed, or is it a flawed
configuration at the ISP. ?
Any ways around this ?
gc
[I am posting a uqwk question to this newsgroup because I understand many
yarn'ers also use uqwk.]
-- George Cordahi cordahi@interlog.com OR cordahg2@epo.gov.on.ca
Mississauga, Ontario
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