In article <bjzs3cun8DRf092yn@swol.de>, rgriech@swol.de (Hardy Griech) wrote: >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 > >-- >VSoup Homepage: http://home.pages.de/~vsoup/ >
I've been in this boat before. The article should be rejected and the posting
will fail. I don't know what vsoup does in this situation, but souper aborts
the posting operation. What I actually do it have a cmd file which checks for
the presence of the replies file and if it is not found delete my outbound zip
file. It is much better than messing about with the .msg files.
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Sincerely,
Andrew.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny ..."
-- Isaac Asimov