>I'm currently using austin360 (a cooperative effort with ibm.net) as
>my main ISP, but have found ibm.net's news server a bit lacking at
>times (missing binaries, etc.) To help out a bit, I've also
>subscribed to newsguy (used to be zippo.) Each of these has their own
>local hierarchy (ibmnet.announce vs newsguy.announce, etc.) and are
>accessed by separate batch files under either OS/2 or NT. Is there a
>way to filter the yarn.zip reply packet at message upload time to send
>messages in these local hierarchies to the proper news server? Or
>will I have to create separate user accounts with different named
>
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>reply files to separate these messages? This can be done by changing a
>single line in my config files before entering yarn. Not too hard to
>do, but hard to remember and can't be done on the fly.
If you didn't have different sets of newsgroups to deal with, you'd be
in good shape. I use three different news servers...but, I stick to
"regular" newsgroups which appear on all three servers. I make no
configuration changes when running Yarn, but I have to be a little
creative at upload time.
First thing, I unzip my reply packet to a separate directory. I also
have a file there called replies.n This will become important in a
moment.
First, for my "main" server, america.net, I upload news and mail, using
Souper/GUI.
Then, I copy my news.msg file back to the Upload directory, as well as
bringing over a copy of replies.n, which just contains the news.msg
header, and call it replies, in my upload directory for Souper.
Now, I upload that same news reply packet to the second server. In this
case, it's Mindspring.
Then, I repeat the process of copying that news.msg file and the replies
file back to the upload directory, and upload to the third server, in
this case, Super Zippo (Newsguy).
Your case is complicated by the local-only newsgroups. One way to
possibly get around that is to crosspost messages you'd normally send to
the local-only groups to some other newsgroup...maybe even alt.dev.null,
or alt.test.
Souper will crash and burn if you try to post to a newsgroup that
doesn't exist on that server, so you either need to do a config file
edit and create multiple reply packages (I suggest .BAT files to keep it
straight), or do that crossposting bit.
Here's a possible .BAT file you could maybe use. I'll assume that you
have Yarn in its own directory on C. First, create config files for
newsguy and austin360. Call them config.n, and config.a. Put them in
the same directory as your config file.
AUSTIN.BAT
rem This is the batch file you run when you plan to write replies that
rem you want to upload to austin360.
c:
cd \yarn\yarn
copy config.a config
cd ..
yarn
rename replies.zip repliesa.zip
NEWSGUY.BAT
rem This is the batch file you run when you plan to write replies that
rem you want to upload to austin360.
c:
cd \yarn\yarn
copy config.n config
cd ..
yarn
rename replies.zip repliesn.zip
Then, you'll have to do whatever management is necessary to upload those
replies to each server. Maybe more batch files.
Hope this helps, or at least gave you some ideas.
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