On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Kelsey Cummings wrote: > Is it possible to configure nntpcache such that our local > news server would always be checked for the article before > supernews... [snip] > Does this make sense? It definitely makes sense - when I first read through the server config file, I was led to believe that nntpcache did this, but I'm afraid it doesn't. If I recall, the question was posed a while back on this list, and Julian confirmed that you can only specify one server for a given newsgroup or hierarchy. I would certainly love to see this functionality; I've found it in a couple of Windoze-only newsreaders, but I have yet to find a proxy server that will do the right thing. I've actually been trudging through the muck of Virtual PC and win95 on a pre-G3 PowerMac just to be able to do this, and it's not pretty. A civilized approach is definitely called for. Anyone know of a caching proxy news server that does the hierarchical- servers thing? thanks. cheers, -ljason
