From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7258 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Watson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Changing Default News Server Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:43:02 -0700 Message-ID: <199607182343.QAA01742@wink.corp.sgi.com> References: <0f687mhw4s.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147591 6495 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:59:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA00089 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:08:08 -0700 Original-Received: from sgi.sgi.com (SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 01:44:38 +0200 Original-Received: from palladium.corp.sgi.com ([192.26.51.29]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA00655; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:44:24 -0700 Original-Received: from wink.corp.sgi.com by palladium.corp.sgi.com via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042/911001.SGI) id QAA07530; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:44:23 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (watson@localhost) by wink.corp.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id QAA01742; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:43:03 -0700 Original-To: Lars Balker Rasmussen In-reply-to: Your message of "18 Jul 1996 09:13:23 +0200." <0f687mhw4s.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7258 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7258 > Lal Samuel Varghese writes: > > I want to change my default news server from x to y. > > What all should I do to ensure a smooth transition? > > What's a smooth transition? Keeping the read articles as read, and the > unread as unread? That is not possible due to the nature of news > distribution. > -- > Lars Balker Rasmussen > Years ago I wrote a quick script to read the active files on the old and new servers as close to simultaneously as possible, then, for each newsgroup found on the new server, take the delta between the high article numbers on the two servers, and apply that delta as a correction to the corresponding line in the reader's .newsrc file. In my script, I only changed the number of the highest article read, not all the individual article numbers on the line, but I suppose you could alter those too, according to the the old/new server delta, and hope that the resulting articles weren't canceled or expired too differently on the new server. Anyway, the method achieved generally successful results according to the users. I can't find a copy of the script to post here, but it was fairly straightforward. -David.