From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43908 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andre Canis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The two Servers Date: 17 Mar 2002 17:19:29 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016382231 18632 127.0.0.1 (17 Mar 2002 16:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16mdRm-0004qP-00 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:23:50 +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 16mdMp-00034P-00; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:18:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:18:49 -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 KAA01866 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:18:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 462 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2002 16:18:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 457 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2002 16:18:27 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Mar 2002 16:18:27 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16mdR3-0000BW-00 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:23:05 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508d6491.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1016382185 465 80.141.100.145 (17 Mar 2002 16:23:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 2002 16:23:05 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43908 Frank Schmitt writes: > I wished it was this easy. Problem number one: At home I've got a dialup > connection and I don't like Gnus agent, so I've got to use a local nntp > server (That's hamster in my case). Does your Hamster fetch its news from the same server you use at university? Maybe it's possible to tell it to store its articles using the same numbers as the upstream server; then you could easily sync your .newsrc files. -- "Unfortunately, Stupendous Man's cape is caught in Mild-Mannered Calvin's zipper! Curses!" -- "Calvin and Hobbes", Bill Watterson