Re: Multiple News sources

From: Hardy Griech (rgriech@swol.de)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:12:59 +0100

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

Depends... If your news server access to Freeserve ISP is password
protected, then perhaps they allow access for transmission through the
internet. If it isn't, I doubt it.

> zip up the untransmitted messages ready for transmission when I dial
> into Prestel?

There's one problem with that scenario: VSoup does not delete
successfully transmitted messages from the news.msg file. It leaves
the file untouched if one article fails to transmit. On the other hand
there should be no problem to transmit news article multiple times to
USENET, because the articles are uniquely identified by their
Message-ID.

Hardy

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