Re: NNTPC: clarification of features?

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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:18:02PM -0400, ljason wrote:
> 
> 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?

Not I.  But I sure would like to!  We have one programmer here that
might be willing to give nntpcache's source a once over to see if he
could add this feature.

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