The two Servers

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

Hello

I'm at the moment in the bad situation of reading news at university
from their nntp server and at home from my local newsserver. This is a
pain because the articles I read at university are unread at home and
vice versa.

Therefor I want a solution which solves this. That means articles
numbers are evil, Message-IDs are good. I thought of two solutions:

Either create a second .newsrc file (for example ~/newsrc.id) and when
an entry in ~/.newsrc is made an entry in ~/.newsrc.id is created which
says which Message-ID belongs to this article number.
When getting the overview one had to parse it for already known
Message-IDs.
This solution is probably much and hard work.

Second idea I had is this one: define something like gnus-get-ids which
gets the Message-IDs for all read articles and gnus-read-ids which gets
a list of Message-IDs, retrieves the article numbers of the corresponding
articles and writes those in ~/.newsrc.
This seems to be not to hard.

I searched the documentation and found that gnus-move.el does something
very similar but there is one thing I really don't understand: Why the
hell does it retrieve the whole head of the article? Wouldn't it be *much*
faster to use the stat command?

Anybody out there who has done something similar before or has an other
idea how to do it?

-- 
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
19. Dezember 2001