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Odoin · #**287** 06-28-2004, 02:38 AM

A cron is where you go downtown and play the shell game and cron people out of their money...

Just kidding... many providers that offer a Control Panel have some way to setup a cron job. You are right what a cron is... It runs a script or program and a set time.

In this case you want it to run the gateway.php script to pick up and send new NNTP messages. You could do this your self by pointing your browser to the gateway.php file... however if you forget or are gone for a few days the new posts will not be updated. Another factor is on large NNTP groups it takes a lot more time if ran once a day rather then every hour.

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