I'm looking into setting up my home server to dial up around 5am and do all of
these steps:
* download email for both users (fetchmail cron job?)
* download articles for a specific set of newsgroups (inn?)
* download 4 pages deep a list of URLs, with graphics but thru junkbuster
(wget + junkbuster + squid?)
Thus when we get up in the morning, we can get our mail from that server, read
news also from it, and also do our morning website ritual, all without
actually dialing out. Thus I can then make the sendmail queue only get run
every 4 hours, say, to further reduce our phonebills. (Can you tell we're
amongst those cut from Surf-No-Limits? :) )
Have any of you folks done something similar? I'm happy to put together a
page of suggestions for the linux.ie site as a result. (I'm digging around
and asking friends, but haven't found others who've set something up like
this.)
B
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