I realise that this is an error prone method, and would be better done
by scripts. I know nothing about doing this for UNIX. But it's only a
three step process - update the local server's .newsrc backup, copy the
alternate server's backup file to .newsrc, and then change the
NNTPSERVER setting.
>You say "no articles are accepted". Are there in fact articles in the
>soup file? What exactly does import say?
There were articles in the soup file, which I'd saved for checking. I
looked into the .msg portion, and found that the articles were indeed
already in my news.dat. So in fact everything is working right. I
tried it again today with a couple more newsgroups, and did get
articles imported. Now to find the holy grail - a good public access
news server. Thanks for your help.
Brian Jackson