Re: Changing Default News Server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

David Watson <watson@wink.corp.sgi.com> writes:

> Years ago I wrote a quick script to read the active files on the old and
> new servers as close to simultaneously as possible, then, for each
> newsgroup found on the new server, take the delta between the high
> article numbers on the two servers, and apply that delta as a correction
> to the corresponding line in the reader's .newsrc file. 

The problem is that articles have a nasty tendency to arrive in
different order on different servers, so this straightforward (and
fast) approach will yield less than optimal results when you apply it
to two servers that are far from each other.

I'll probably do something similar, though.  Going through all
Message-ID's of all read and/or unread articles is out of the
question.  Perhaps one could get kinda good results by going through a
few groups and trying to guess how thorough one has to be?  

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen