[leafnode-list] Re: Configuring posting and fetching differently from various servers.
Adam Funk
adam00f at ducksburg.com
Thu Jan 26 20:15:13 CET 2006
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 23:33, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Adam Funk <adam00f at ducksburg.com> writes:
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 20:26, Martin wrote:
> >> Well, this brings an idea to my mind, but I'm not sure whether I'm
> >> right:
> >>
> >> /etc/leafnode/config:
> >> |server = news.individual.net
> >> |... the lines concerning this server ...
> >> |server = your.isp's.server
> >> |... the lines concerning your isp's server ...
> >
> > From playing with some more test messages, I think that if I submit a
> > message to leafnode between runs of fetchnews, it will post to the
> > first server that will take it. I suspect that the one fluke I saw
> > (a post went to the second server when both could have handled it)
> > might have happened while I posted to leafnode while fetchnews was
> > running, so when it got to the second server, the message was in
> > out.going/.
>
> Yes, that may have happened. One man's mean, another man's poison.
>
> This is something that has no easy answer, no matter what we do, we'll
> inconvenience part of the user group.
I'm not complaining, just thinking out loud.
:-)
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