Adopey.153
net.unix-wizards
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Sun Mar 14 10:42:38 1982
Re: UUCP dialing times
Some folks at rand have a fairly clean mod to conn.c to handle calling
time lists; they've also fixed up the login sequence code so that
it can deal with port selectors, etc., that like CR rather than LF.
I'll check if I can post it.
What I'm interested in is a way to restrict the frequency of calls; for
short messages at 1200 baud, more time (and hence more phone charges)
are spent in handshaking than in talking. Also, uucico is *big*; it
might be nice to be able to batch calls even on local links. The best
idea I've come up with so far is to add a pseudo-time to the date field,
something like "Batch60", which would specify a minimum of 60 minutes
between calls. Then, upon normal termination, cico.c could write out
an STST file (with the date suitable twiddled) to block any calls till
then.
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