Re: Changing Default News Server

[David Lebel <lebel@socom.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

: Well, I think if we're clever we can get the operation down to hours,
: and if we do it thoroughly it might take days.  I'm probably being
: overly pessimistic, though.  I think I should just write it and see
: whether it'll be too slow to be useful.

	Isn't everything needed in the XOVERVIEW file?  Just by
downloading the file from both servers, then comparing the numbers and
re-arranging the unread/read numbers and the thing is done.  Shouldn't
be too long.

	I could be wrong, though.

	...David

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