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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.future] Re: reading news from multiple NNTP servers.
- Message-ID: <9208121716.AA21708@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:16:09 GMT
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- From: jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (J Lee Jaap)
- Subject: Re: reading news from multiple NNTP servers.
- Message-ID: <JAAPJL.92Aug12104313@cmb00.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:43:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.010716.16392@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (mike begley) writes:
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- Is there ans newsreading software that will allow me to read news from
- multiple NNTP servers? For example, I read some news on from our local
- server, and read some groups on a remote server. I think it would be
- to have another field in the .newsrc file that specifies what server the
- groups are to be read from. this would
-
- -widen the range of groups a user may read
- -allow users to spread their use over multiple sites, thereby spreading
- the load from some overloaded sites
- -lessen the danger of censorship by giving users a choice of server; they're
- not limited to the range of groups their administrator decides to carry.
-
- Is this a possibility?
-
- GNUS has this capability, but implemented a different way. It can
- use ~/.newsrc-<server>, where <server> is the name of the server....
- I'm not sure where to find it (I didn't install it), but you can
- probably ask on gnu.emacs.gnus.
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- J Lee Jaap <jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov> +1 804/864-2148
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