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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
date: 1997-07-26 23:29:00
subject: GIGO

Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to All:
 MR> I've just started my attempt to configure GIGO to run, for
 MR> now only gating  newsgroups.
 MR> I'm using VSOUP to fetch the news, since it's faster than
 MR> SOUPER fetching  mail.  Still not terribly fast (20KB/sec
 MR> with 10 threads, as opposed to  120KB/sec with other
 MR> programs for newsreading with two threads), but better  than
 MR> the 2 to 5KB/sec that SOUPER did.
 MR> I've configured to the point where GIGO sees the .BAG files
 MR> (renamed from  VSOUP's .MSG files), and goes through each
 MR> one of them.  
 MR> That's as far as it goes - it doesn't appear to be doing
 MR> anything with the  information.  I cannot find any packets
 MR> generated from them. 
 MR> Anyone here using GIGO to import news via SOUP who can point
 MR> me in the right  direction?
Vsoup needs a soupfix program to restore the file to usable state for GIGO. 
Also, do you have a mapping.cfg file with the newsgroup names of the groups 
you wish to gate? There is a nodelete test flag for GIGO as well as a GIGO 
mailing list that might be very useful for you. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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