I'm attempting to determine if me and NNTPCache are a match made in heaven. So I figured I'd run this letter I wrote to NNTPCache by you first. Seeing that yall know NNTPCache much better than I do, you could probably tell me ahead of time how NNTPCache will respond. And besides, you can read. ___________________________ Dear NNTPCache, Please combine the overviews for the newsgroup "alt.it's.so.big.that.no.server.gets.all.articles" from three different news servers into one combined overview. When I request an article, get it from a server that has it, not one that doesn't. (duh) You don't need to cache the article because I'm the only user. But you can if you want. Please check the overviews of each of the three servers every 15 minutes and combine the results so that when my newsreader asks you for the mondo-overview for alt.so.big, you return a freshly multiplexed overview. Please pretend to be just a basic, courteous non-suckfeed newsreader to the newsservices from whence you get the overviews and (eventually) the articles. Please use the username and password given to me by these newsservices. Your truly, User ___________________________________________ Can NNTPCache do all this? Or will NNTPCache write this letter back? ____________________________________________ Dear User, Thank you just for being you. On a related note, I don't know how to combine the overview of one newsgroup from different servers. I only know how to combine different groups from different servers and present them as one big active file. In other words, there's a one-to-one relationship between a cached/proxied newsgroup and the server I get the articles from for that group. Sorry, hosebag. Pseudo-best regards, NNTPCache
