Subject: News Server

From: "Dinesh R. Thakkar" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:00:32 +0530 (GMT+5:30)

Hello,

I am presently using 2 different news servers.
Is it possible to have different .newsrc file for each server? How?

Thanks, Dinesh.

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From: Matthew Schinckel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:55:14 +930

> Is it possible to have different .newsrc file for each server? How?

Not that I am aware of.  However, you can do what I do.  I have one 
NEWSRC. file (I am under VMS).  The lines of my pine.pinerc file, in the 
news-collections section read:

*{ferntree.com.au/nntp}[aus.*]
*{ferntree.com.au/nntp}[comp.*]
*{ntx.city.unisa.edu.au/nntp}[unisa.*]

(My newsrc file is something like:

aus.computers.amiga xx-xxx
aus.computers.mac xx-xxx
comp.mail.pine xx-xxx
unisa.general xx-xxx

(but with more entries)

This way, I have four collections - my local mail collection, with INBOX, 
MAIL etc, and three remote news-collections.  It is not the most elegant 
setup, but it works.

BTW, you can only post to the first entry in the nntp-server config entries.

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