Re: Multiple news servers

From: Dirk A. Loedding (judge@america.net)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 09:13:24 -0400

sthoenna@efn.org (Allen Scott-Thoennes) wrote:

>Yarn should accept soup files from multiple servers with no problem. It
>just rejects any message with a Message-ID that it already has (and tells
>you it did so).

I can speak from direct experience that Yarn does indeed behave in
exactly the way you describe. I myself feed Yarn SOUP packets from 4
different news servers, in an effort to get something resembling a
complete news feed.

>Are you *certain* you are using a different newsrc file for different
>servers? I would recommend *not* copying the newsrc files around...

Same here!

>You say "no articles are accepted". Are there in fact articles in the
>soup file? What exactly does import say?

A good question to ask.

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