[leafnode-list] Re: Copying messages to a new newsgroup
clemens fischer
ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org
Fri May 28 19:56:07 CEST 2010
Tim Thompson wrote:
> Question: Is it possible to copy messages from one newsgroup in the
> spool to another? Do the messages have to be modified or an index
> updated when this is done?
Yes, news-servers all keep an index with the messages in some particular
newsgroup. It is not impossible to do it manually, but it's way easier
to cross-post the old articles.
If you really want to fake it, take a look into the spool directory of
the newsgroup in question. ".overview" is the name of that index, but
you'd have to get the numbering in the "Xref:" header line and the
permissions in shape, plus the index itself. This cannot reliably done
with fetchnews running, so you'd have to turn that off, too.
clemens
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