Re: Multiple News sources
From: Andrew Hodgson (andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:22:44 +0100
In article <zm1r3Im2ZfVO092yn@coprolite.prestel.co.uk>,
alan@coprolite.prestel.co.uk (Alan Clifford) wrote:
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>alan@coprolite.prestel.co.uk (Alan Clifford) wrote:
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>>Hello all,
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>>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).
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>>I'm using Vsoup and Yarn under OS/2.
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>>etc etc
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>Hello All again.
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>I've read a newer version of the Vsoup documentation....
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>I think I need to do the following:
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>News reception: for each newsserver, set the HOME directory to the
>location of each newsrc file.
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>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?
No it won't. You can get your mail but not news. This is standard with most
isps over here as the news system does not accept any password information.
However, I think that prestel and freeserve carry most of the same groups (fs
even carry prestel.* groups), so if you wanted to post your message to the
server as long as the group existed on that server you should be OK.
If you want I can give you a newsrc file of all the groups on the freeserve
server?
Also I don't know why you would want two seperate news directories, you would
have to download the article more than once, and you could get problems. Maybe
a different newsrc file, again though I am not sure how vsoup works.
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Sincerely,
Andrew.
When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who were
poorer, had only a black-and-white set. They bought a piece of cellophane,
shaded from red through yellow to blue, and taped it over their screen, so
they could claim that they had a color TV, too. Now there's Windows 3.1.