[Wolves] usenet server

[Ron Wellsted]

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Wayne Morris wrote:

>
> Can it handle multiple servers for getting different groups, ie groups A and 
> B from Server 1, groups C and D from Server 2 etc?
> I've always meant to run a news-server but would need it to pull articles 
> from different groups on three different servers, and present them all in one 
> pane
> as if they were all from the same server. Also, when replying to groups it 
> would obv need to know which server to send it to, and ideally allow a 
> different identity for each group/server.
>

Simple one word answer: Yes.

More complex answer: Yes, though the configuration is appropriately more 
complex.  You will see the leafnode server as a single server with ALL the 
groups from the upstream server, ie groups A, B, C and D (and all the way 
to zzz.zzz.zzz). AFAIK you cannot make it rewrite the identity headers on 
messages that you post (it shouldn't do, it's a server).  That is a job 
for the newsreader.

If you fetch the articles in a previously unread group, 
it will serve a temporary place holder article than fetch all the current 
articles from the relevant server the next time fetchnews is run (don't 
try any alt.binaries newsgroup on a dial-up!)

Watch the disk storage, as it keeps a local copy of each message in each 
subscribed newsgroup (it does try to keep a track of cros-posting). So you 
will need a lot of disk space in the spool directory if you subscribe to 
any high volume groups (e.g. alt.binaries.*, groups with large numbers of 
pictures, etc.)


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Ron Wellsted
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ron at wellsted.org.uk
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