Newsgroups: pubnet.sysops,can.usrgroup
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: changing USENET to suit one's system
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.172022.511@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov14.041714.4650@telly.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 17:20:22 GMT

In article <1989Nov14.041714.4650@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>Does the Usenet software currently in use allow me to re-arrange the
>hierarchies *only for the purposes of reading on this site*, without
>scrambling it all up for my feeds (both upstream and downstream).

No, you'd have to bash on the news readers a fair bit, I would think.
If you aren't concerned about outbound news, you can use C News's "="
feature to remap groups locally, but that mapping is one-way and will
be visible to anyone you feed.

Actually, if you just want to *experiment*, you could be perverse and
run two C Newses on the same machine.  #1 would be set up in the orthodox
way and would handle incoming and outgoing feeds; it would feed stuff to
#2 as if it were a separate machine.  #2 would be set up as a leaf node
for the news readers, and would remap newsgroups with wild abandon.  I
don't think I'd recommend this for long-term operation, as I'd suspect
it would be a trifle inefficient, but it should work.
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