Multiple news servers

From: Brian Jackson (brianj@mozart.inet.co.th)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:18:09 +0700

A few months back I posted here for help in setting up an alternate
news server, and how I might use UQWK commands for creating the
packet. We had a custom made script/front end on our server for
building packets, but it only worked with the default local news
server. The problem has become academic now, since the administrator
has redone the script to allow it to be used with any news server
which has been set by the NNTPSERVER setting.

With a little bit of backing up and resetting the .newsrc file,
everything on the server end seems to be working so that I can easily
create a soup packet from the alternate server. However, when I try to
import this into yarn, no articles are accepted. Presumably this is
due to the article numbering system being out of whack with the newsrc
file in the yarn directory. Is there any way around this, short of
setting up a separate instance of yarn with separate configuration
files? I notice that some groups have multiple ranges of article
numbers in this newsrc file, but I'm a bit reluctant to monkey around
with that.

I have a feeling there must be a simple answer to this, and I'd love
to hear it. Thanks.

Brian Jackson

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