>I actually use yarn 0.80 to read/write mail & news articles
>packed by uqwk on my Unix machine from TWO different news servers,
>because some newsgroups are not collected by one of the two.
>
>So i need to make yarn (or uqwk) to be able to divide the articles
>and post them to the right server.
>
>Any kind of HELP really appreciated.
>
To collect news from different newservers I have been thinking of using
souper for OS/2 with this batch/cmd file. It isn't very tidy yet, as I
haven't actually had time to set it up but I will soon and as I have been
thinking similar things to you I thought that I would share. Some of my
servers require authentication but that is handled seemlessly in the new
souper:
copy newsrc.tjunews newsrc
set nntpserver=tjunews.tju.edu
souper -k 0 -m
zip -0m news *.msg areas
import news.zip
copy newsrc.vnet newsrc
set nntpserver=netnews.voicenet.com
souper -k 0 -m
zip -0m news *.msg areas
import news.zip
etc
I just basically am maintaining two newsrc's that keep track of the
different newsgroups and different numbers. Any messages that are on both
servers will be very elegantly rejected by Yarn's import program so there
should be no problem.
Posting should be easy too.
set nntpserver=tjunews.tju.edu
copy reply.zip reply.zip.bak
unzip -o reply.zip
souper -k 0 -s
set nntpserver=netnews.voicenet.com
unzip -o reply.zip
souper -k 0 -s
I obviously will post some of my messages to both servers, but that
doesn't matter at all. As long as the posts to both nntpservers have the
same message ID only one copy will ever show up in any newsgroup. If both
tjunews and voicenet try and send my message to your newserver, your
server will only accept the first one. You may even find that your
messages are propagated through usenet faster. If you find a list of open
nntpservers around the world you can post your message to all of them for
very fast propagation. I do that sometimes.
Hope that helped and didn't muddy the water further,
Ian
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