From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43781 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The two Servers Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:38:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015426093 20268 195.204.10.66 (6 Mar 2002 14:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 14:48:13 GMT Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16iciC-0005Gj-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:48:12 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16icZy-0002lh-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 08:39:42 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 06 Mar 2002 08:39:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA04286 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:39:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28263 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2002 14:39:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28258 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2002 14:39:26 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 14:39:26 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g26Ecwb14547; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:38:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id PAA11004; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:38:53 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 8C5EC3B427; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:38:53 +0100 (CET) Original-To: In-Reply-To: (Frank Schmitt's message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:24:30 +0100") Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43781 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43781 Frank Schmitt writes: > 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: I suggest that you set up your own news server, for example with the program Leafnode. Then you can tell Leafnode to fetch from both servers, and you can carry around the data directory with rsync or something like this. kai -- Silence is foo!