Re: The two Servers

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

Andre Canis <Andre.Canis@web.de> 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.

I'm just writing an application to solve my problem, here's what it
does:

It gets as input the name of a server and the information if it should be
slave or master. 

If it's master then it opens a file consisting of pairs from
article-number and corresponding message-ids (for this server), which
was created by previous runs of the program.

Then it opens ~/.newsrc, looks up for which articles the message-id is
still missing, and gets those message-ids from the newsserver. After
that it creates a file including the message-ids from all articles
listed in ~/.newsrc.

If it's started as slave, it reads the file the master created (the file
with the message-id's of read articles), gets the corresponding article
numbers (like above, already known ones from a file, new ones from the
server) and creates a new ~/.newsrc.

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