Re: Multiple News sources

From: Alan Clifford (alan@coprolite.prestel.co.uk)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 22:44:03 +0000

alan@coprolite.prestel.co.uk (Alan Clifford) wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>What I want to do is receive newsgroups from a second newsserver (there
>is an added complication is that it will be done using a second dialup
>to a second ISP, as I am trying one of the free ISPs).
>
>I'm using Vsoup and Yarn under OS/2.

>etc etc

Hello All again.

I've read a newer version of the Vsoup documentation....

I think I need to do the following:

News reception: for each newsserver, set the HOME directory to the
location of each newsrc file.

News transmission: Put multiple servers in the Vsoup command line and
Vsoup will try each in turn. This leads to another (rhetorical)
question. Will the Freeserve ISP allow access to its newsserver, if I
dial in via Prestel? If not, I suppose the strategy to follow is to
zip up the untransmitted messages ready for transmission when I dial
into Prestel?

Alan