Re: Souper and switching providers
From: Mel Wilson (mwilson@interlog.com)
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 19:59:58 -0400
In article <aWWazM79BkxF089yn@sawnet.com>,
sms@sawnet.com (Steven M. Sawczyn) wrote:
>Hi, currently, I am in the process of switching ISPs. My question is,
>should I delete my newsrc file and start from scratch, or will my new news
>server pick up where my old one left off?
AFAIK, those sequence numbers in the .newsrc file are unique to the
ISP. The ideal thing would be to run with both ISPs for a week or so,
and get the same newsgroups from both of them, letting YARN throw away
the duplicated articles. That will avoid gaps in your feed.
Regards. Mel.