Subject: two newservers vs one .newsrc ??

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Welch)
Date: 19 Mar 1995 17:17:22 -0600

Before I completely trash my existing .newsrc, I thought it would be 
prudent to at least ask for advice.  

The saga so far:  we have been transferring news to a local machine.  And 
we have local newsgroups on the same machine.  In the interest of saving 
hard drive space, and getting a complete set of news, we now have nntp 
access to an outside news provider.  I tested access using trn.  The 
first thing that happened was that all local groups were declared bogus 
and were marked unsubscribed.  Not nice.  

What we want to do is set up pine to access both machines as seperate 
news sources.  I can do that in the configuration.  But, before turning 
the masses loose, I need to find a way of avoiding each access to a 
seperate news source bogusing the newsgroups for the other source.  And, 
it has to be transparent to "joe user".  For myself, I have seperate 
.newsrc's on each machine - but joe user is limited to pine on one 
machine.  

My generic solution would be to have .newsrcmachine1 and .newsrcmachine2 
linked to news.machine1 and news.machine2 - the question is, can it be 
done?  Or, is there another way?  Or, are we simply out of luck?  

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