Xref: utzoo news.software.nntp:775 news.software.b:5509 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b Subject: Re: nntp + local? Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 90 07:15:21 GMT References: Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY Lines: 28 In bglenden@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes: Has anyone made modifications to allow news to work with both an nntp feed for the bulk of the news, plus having some local newsgroups on a disk in the organization. Presumably it would be best to modify nntp rather than every newsreader. Hmm, that's not very clear, one model might be /----remore nntpd newsreader----------------->nntpd/ \ \---local disk The problem with this model is that there is no "nntpd -> remote nntpd" link. nntpd is just on the remote end; your newsreader sets up a connexion from the machine you are on to the server which forks off the nntpd which responds to commands sent via your newsreader. If nobody has done this, can anyone estimate how hard it would be to add this capability? Thanks. It should not be terribly hard to add it to newsreaders as long as you know the internals of them. Finding your way around some of that code for the first time is a bit of a chore. -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))