>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.
Thanks, but I downloaded a Freeserve newgroup list a few minutes ago.
It is very easy with Vsoup - I just put a -a in the Vsoup command line
in my Rexx cmd file.
I have two separate "in" directories with separate newsrc files because
I want to try out Freeserve. I'll try different newgroups but, at the
moment, I've got a couple of newsgroups that are set up in both and the
duplicate are rejected at the Yarn import stage. I don't download
enough to worry about the cost of duplicate downloading for a short
period.
Alan