Re: Souper and switching providers
From: Kevin Martin (cannon@nic.com)
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 22:57:06 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 1 May 1997, 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?
The numbering at any given provider is unique to that provider.
Heck, the numbering at my site and the upstream provider from which it
gets ALL its news don't match up at all! Keep the groupnames, but wipe
out the article numbers and "catch up" the first time you log on.