Re: Accessing other news servers

From: Dirk A. Loedding (judge@america.net)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:24:45 -0500

stefan.kapus@zetnet.co.uk (Stefan Kapusniak) wrote:

> You would have to connect to Mindspring directly to pull the second
> set of news;

Which I've been able to do, since my wife has a Mindspring account, and
only uses it for e-mail and web stuff.

> An important point to note is that if you are pulling news
> from multiple servers using souper, you must always pull the
> news from _all_ the servers or remember to do a catch-up
> regularly.

Yep. It'll take me a bit longer in the morning to pull a feed from both
servers, but it'll be worth it.

> Also note that you may have problems with articles you have
> expired re-appearing because you've pulled another copy from a
> different server. This happens when you expire aggressively
> and/or where news propogation is particularly poor.

Well, America.Net has a timely newsfeed...it's just not very complete.
I think Mindspring's feed is both timely *and* complete. But, to be on
the safe side, I'll just pull from both and let Yarn sort out
duplicates. If I download from both on a frequent basis, I don't expect
too much trouble. And, I'd rather see a few articles twice than see
many articles not at all. :)

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