Alan Brown wrote: <SNIP> > wrt article numbering, all sorts of weird effects occur if a newsgroup is > read on one server, which is unavailable when the group is accessable on > another server. Local article numbering would be a very "good thing" IMO. > > AB If the article numbers are not kept the same, this will break any use of a cluster of round-robined news servers. Not good! We intend using nntpcache in each of our PoPs, but need the redundancy of central backup servers incase of a failure at the remote PoP. With the article numbers the same, customers would see no difference in the use of a different server to normal. This also means that customers can dial into any PoP without upsetting their news reader. -- Mark Cooper / Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year To All Systems Administrator / Cable Internet / - We are Linux, you will be assimilated. =====================================================================END
