Re: questions regarding a change of server.
Mel Wilson (mwilson@interlog.com)
Thu, 23 May 1996 08:29:25 -0400
In article <7d8oxM79B4iG089yn@cris.com>,
sms@cris.com (Steven M. Sawczyn) wrote:
>
>Hi, Currently, I'm using yarn-089 and am enjoying it very much. Over the
>next few weeks, however, I will be switching providers, hence the following
>questions.
>#1 Should I delete all my news spool files before running uqwk on my new
>provider? [ ... ]
Actually, if there's a time window when you have access to both ISPs,
you can subscribe to your usual newsgroups on both, download SOUP
packets from both, run import on both packets, and just run YARN. Import
will be deleting a lot of duplicate articles, but the cutover should be
seamless. (Change your user-id in the config file, of course.)
Regards. Mel.