--- Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > nntpcahce 2.4.0b5, FreeBSD 4.4-stable
> >
> >
> > I run a local INN server, and I'm trying to front it with nntpcache. WIth
> a
> > single backend server, it works fine.
> >
> > However, I decided to also get a backup reader connection from another news
> service
> > to test it and fill in the holes.
>
> It's not possible to have the same group bound to two different servers,
> due to conflicts in article numbering, xrefs etc.
>
> --
> Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
> |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and
> proff@iq.org |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
> proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
>
Hi Julian,
I'm hoping that you'll consider adding "in the current design"
after "It's not possible."
1. There must be some way to merge articles that have been
acquired from different sources (tape backups, news servers,
whatever) because DejaNews (now Google Groups) has already
accomplished this. nntpcache would need to do its own
article numbering and maintain a file containing the
last article number fetched for each news server/newsgroup
combination. For (a grossly oversimplified) example:
alt.sysadmin.recovery:news.uk.example.com:38762
alt.sysadmin.recovery:news.tw.example.com:4398
Duplicate articles could be weeded out by using the
article ID.
2. I feel that this type of functionality would be very
useful and would make nntpcache that much better than
it is now. If someone doesn't want to pay for access
to a big Usenet news server, and their ISP's newsfeed
isn't so great, they could use nntpcache to augment
their ISP's news server with articles from news servers
that are open to the public. Since many public news
servers are read-only, it would also be nice if
nntpcache could be configured to "last ditch attempt"
post to, for example, "post.usenet.com." It would
only do so if all of the news servers for a given
newsgroup have been designated as "read only" in
the nntpcache servers config file, or all attempts to
post to the news servers that carry the newsgroup have
failed (either because they're read-only, or they're down).
In that event, post to "post.usenet.com" and if that
fails, inform the newsreader that its article cannot
be posted at the current time because no suitable
news servers could be found to post to.
Just some thoughts.
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