news feed over Ethernet: how?

[Tom Chmara]

Not sure where to ask; hope these groups are fine.
I'm trying to improve the news distribution within our organization.
Here's the scenario:
We have a number of USENETted machines.  They interconnect using
modems (1200bps and up).  Our major feed is getting itself Ethernetted,
and 9600 bps hardware is becoming available in-house -- this opens up
two possible migration paths.
The problem:
  The 9600bps interfaces are nonstandard:  they don't look like Hayes,
nor Ventel, nor anyone familiar.  Hence, my SUN's uucp can't work with
it.  I've hacked it by writing a program which configures the line,
dials the number, and calls uucico who treats it like a direct line.
Kludgy, but it avoids needing source.  Evidently, H-D uucp is better for
configurability, but it doesn't come with SUNs, and isn't P-D to the best
of my knowledge.
   The Ethernet is another option.  In this hacking frame of mind, I've
been thinking about performing the same kludge for it, for those of our
feeds which support Ethernet:  rlogin(1)ing into the desired feed,
system(2)ing uucico, and voila, a high-speed feed.
The question:
   I've had time to calm down and think.  The thought I came
up with is:  does anyone on the Net have a better idea than this?  Has anyone
already handled these problems?  NNTP as I understand it is not acceptable,
as not ALL the hosts have Ethernet access, and we'd like to keep the
Ethernetted ones fairly autonomous.
	Please save me from myself...
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