>I don't know anything about Mindspring, but to be able to
>connect to a different news server than 'your own', the other
>news server has to be an open (or 'public') news server.
That may answer my question right there. I do have the option of
logging on to Mindspring on my wife's account, however. So, that may be
the way to go. Download from there, and upload from America.Net.
>There are quite a lot of public news servers, although some of them
>only allow you to retrieve articles, not post them.
That would actually work for me. I could download from one of those
servers, and then upload here.
>If you have shell access, you may want to try the following
>command:
>setenv NNTPSERVER "the.server.you.want.to.try"
>[including the quotes]
I'll give that a shot. Thanks.
>In most cases, UQWK will work with any news server from your
>shell account.
What about Souper95? Could I just change my Set NNTP line and have it
go where it's supposed to go?
>Then I just start UQWK, and everything goes well. The only
>problem is .newsrc, because the article count will vary from one
>server to the next. That's only a small problem at the moment
>you make the switch (back). Simplest option is to unsubscribe
>and resubscribe to the groups with an on-line reader like nn,
>trn or rn, or to manually edit .newsrc and remove all article
>number ranges. You will retrieve all available articles in all
>subscribed groups, but that's a one time thing. After that, your
>.newsrc will be in sync with the new server.
Well, if I did something like that, I'd probably do something with
swapping .newsrc files, and pull a news feed from both places each time.
Might have to end up creating two different SOUP packets each day, but
it might be worth it to get a more complete news feed.
Thanks for your input. Anyone else?
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