[leafnode-list] Re: Configuring posting and fetching differently from various servers.

[Matthias Andree]

Adam Funk <adam00f at ducksburg.com> writes:

> I'm using two incoming news servers: my ISP's server, which carries
> some local groups not available on the wider usenet, and
> news.individual.net.
>
> Can I configure leafnode to send all outgoing posts through
> news.individual.net except for the local groups, which have to go to
> the ISP's server, but *without* restricting the incoming feeds?

Well, leafnode (or fetchnews) for that matter will check if a group is
available on the server before posting articles for it, so it should
automatically figure things out; this assumes however that your server
forwards posts for all non-local groups into the Usenet.

Routing subsets of newsgroups to particular servers is not implemented yet.

> (The way I read the documentation, using only_groups_pcre server
>options would restrict fetchnews to download only the local groups from
>the ISP's server.  But I could be reading it wrong.

No, you're reading that right, setting that option with a regexp for the
local group would make fetchnews skip non-local groups from the same
server.

>I want to fetch groups from both servers when possible.)

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Matthias Andree