Hello Sean!

22 Oct 03 23:27, Sean Rima wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SR>> Is it possible to have a node setup so that he can post to an
 SR>> area only, ie he gets on messages back from the echo.

 SD>> You'd probably have to set up something like FastEcho to do
 SD>> that... Squish won't do that itself, IIRC.

 SR> It is nothing major as it is only for a Squish nntp server :)

Why would anyone want to post to an area they can't read?

There's no simple switch or setup for what you want to do, but you could
get there a number of ways.  You could have separate cfgs for IN and OUT
runs, where the areas you don't want to scan are not included in the out
pass.  You could use the echotoss.log parameter on runs and add a bit of
batch logic to filter the toss-only areas' tags out of the echotoss.log
before the OUT pass.
You could have duplicate versions of each area in seperate directories and
toss to the "real" file and scan from an dummy "empty
file", with a little directory rename magic going on in between to
determine which is active for each run.

About the only way that =won't= work is running in single-pass mode (IN and
OUT at the same time).  Which trick makes the most sense will be determined
by how many "normal" usages you need to continue to support.

.\\ike

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