On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 12:04:46AM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote: > Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file /etc/news/server > would determine the NNTP news server for any news-reader. This would ideally > work for knews, netscape, pine, trn, ... . I believe one can configure the > traditional news readers like knews, pine, trn to use the variable > NNTPSERVER, > but NNTPSERVER apparently can not be used by netscape.
Isn't it a big problem that different news servers will have different current article numbers? Your .newsrc last read article numbers will be valid for one server but may refer to different articles entirely on another. You may see articles again or you may miss them altogether. You could rotate your .newsrc file, but then you will definately see all the articles twice. You could run a local news server, and use suck to get the articles from whichever server; you'd need to maintain separate sucknewsrc files to avoid missing articles, but the duplicates will certainly be removed somewhere (either by suck or by the news server). leafnode should do the trick, although I've never used it. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .