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- From: rob@hp11 (Rob Freyder)
- Newsgroups: news.software.nn
- Subject: Re: Can I change servers with nn?
- Message-ID: <rob.722290229@hp11>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:10:29 GMT
- References: <BxMC3p.J86@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <3317@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <librik.722246510@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
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- In <librik.722246510@cory.Berkeley.EDU> librik@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Librik) writes:
-
- >acbhour@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Rudi van Houten) writes:
- >>In <BxMC3p.J86@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jjz34245@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Wendell Gee) writes:
- >>>I would like to use nn to connect to a remote news server. Is there a way
- >>>I can set that up being a regular user? Or are the operators here the only
- >>>ones that can change that?
- >>You'll need the the system guys on both the machine you use and the remote
- >>news server.
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-
- Hmmm. This is interesting. My NNTP server didnt have to set me up... As
- far as changing servers, NN has a database of articles on the local
- machine so their could be problems with switching between the two or
- three servers that you want to use. Like articles that have been
- expired, on one and not the other.
-
- >This is very unfortunate. Using RN or XRN you can just "setenv NNTPSERVER
- >new.machine.address" and off it goes. This is useful when your site has
- >several news servers. Would it be easy to add this feature to NN?
-
- I guess you could have a separate database for each server although that
- seems rather wasteful in terms of space. Hmm interesting question.
-
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- Rob.
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