Ken Murchison wrote:
There is no overlap between the groups from the different servers, and grouping them is easy with wildcard matching:
cups.* microsoft.* infragistics.* everything else
OK, so you need the newspeer option to be a *list* of peers? But you *don't* need fetchnews to track the newsgroups by host?
Forgive my inability to answer that at this point, I haven't studied the Cyrus NNTP support documentation yet. Here is what I like to do:
(A) mirror about a dozen newsgroups from news.west.cox.net (my ISP, Usenet groups)
(B) mirror about a dozen newsgroups from news.microsoft.com (public NNTP server)
(C) mirror six newsgroups from news.easysw.com (public NNTP server)
(D) mirror about ten newsgroups from news.infragistics.com (public NNTP server)
I read _and_ post to most of these groups. No single group comes from more than one place, though, each group has only a single server that I will use to get and post messages for that group.
I don't know that if that answers your questions or not... but I suspect this sort of arrangement will be a common usage of Cyrus' NNTP support (for those places that don't arrange for feeds). In fact, if you want to use any of these non-Usenet groups that corporations/etc. provide, you'll never get a feed and have to use reader mode.
Yeah, I'll need to expand the newspeer option to accept a whitespace separated list of servers. You'll have one entry for each server with the appropriate wildmat.
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