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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: How to switch to a new news server
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.125338.12502@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 12:53:38 GMT
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Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City
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	Our main news machine is currently a vax which is going to be
decommisioned soon so we want to switch news to a sun server.  We're
running C-news and nntp.  People on the vax read news with rn, and those on
suns read it with rrn.  After the switch, we want people on the vax to
start using rrn too.  We want to have both systems running for a while to
make sure the new one is working right before we turn off news on our vax.

	The problem is, we don't want to invalidate everybody's .newsrc
file.  Is there any reasonable way to make the article numbers (i.e.
contents of the active file) on the new sun news server match those on the
old vax news server, and stay in sync?
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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