Re: snget and the right time.

On Saturday 04 October 2003 10:53, Chris Niekel wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:16:30AM +0200, Wolfgang Scheicher wrote:
>> You mean nobody never ever thought of syncing a global group to the
>> upstream server? I admit i am a newbie, but this i simply don't want to
>> belive this! :-)
>
> Not immediately, but ofcourse people sync. When I start reading news, I
> do a snget, and after I post, I run it again.

But that's sounds like exactely what i want!

> So for me, it's always manual.

What do you mean with "manual"?
you mean you log in to the server sn is running on,
become user news, and run snget ?

> Even if you get it all to work so that a post is forwarded to the
> upstream server immediately, that doesn't mean you'll get it back
> immediately as well.
>
> The whole nature of usenet is that not everything happens immediately.
> Maybe it's for the best for usenet at large when your users learn that
> quite soon?

I see. It just got used to the fact that on all newsgroups i do a post, i see 
my own post shortly after.

So what shall i do? do a cron job that does run snget every hour?
or every 5 minutes? Or something else?

Worf