Argh, my ISP has swapped newservers and the article nubmers are different.

Argh, my ISP has swapped newservers and the article nubmers are different.

[Sean Doran]

My ISP decided not to make it widely known that they
were changing the DNS RRs associated with the newserver
I use, as part of a clean-up following its acquisition.

The result is a "new" newserver with much lower article
numbers in such groups as comp.dcom.sys.cisco and the
like, so gnus reports empty newsgroups.

Other than manually editing the .newsrc.eld file (not so
hard, I don't read that much news, but I'm lazy), is there
any sane way to synchronize to the new server, bearing in
mind that I have a number of articles in the cache, which
ultimately will clash with newly arriving articles (someday)?

	Sean.

Re: Argh, my ISP has swapped newservers and the article nubmers are different.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> writes:

> Other than manually editing the .newsrc.eld file (not so
> hard, I don't read that much news, but I'm lazy), is there
> any sane way to synchronize to the new server, bearing in
> mind that I have a number of articles in the cache, which
> ultimately will clash with newly arriving articles (someday)?

You have to move the cache away, or nothing will work.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen