Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mdcbbs!spain From: spain@mdcbbs.com Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: More questions about NNTP and served newsgroups. Message-ID: <648.25af0c97@mdcbbs.com> Date: 13 Jan 90 11:10:15 GMT References: Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA Lines: 31 In article , SMITH%MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Ross Smith: (212) 340-5356) writes: > Now the question is: What happens when someone posts something to a served > group? Right now it looks as though it is added locally, and the message ID is > put in the list in the .IDS file for forwarding by the same mechanism as items > posted to any other (served) group. > > Now this is OK, of course, if this is how it is meant to work. I had the idea, > probably wrong, that the new posting to a served group would be placed directly > into the remote server database, and not kept locally at all. NEWSSKIM should find any locally posted newsitems and create a COLLECT.IDS file (sounds like it is already doing this). When NEWSSKIM finds a COLLECT.IDS file, it *should* invoke the NNTP_FEED image which creates a NNTP.BATCH file over on your server system. Side Note: I found that the NNTP.BATCH file was not being feed into my server newsgroups properly (for some reason 5.9 required the /NEWSGROUP qualifier even though the newsgroup was specified in the file) so... I wrote a short command file to break out the various newsitems and feed them into the right newsgroups using the qualifier /NEWSGROUP=newsgroup. Hope this helps. We are strugglin' over here a bit too :-). Wouldn't it be nice to have a VMSINSTAL version of NEWS (assuming all of the idiosyncracies could be handled/automated) :-). ============================================================= | Harrison M. Spain III | Voice: (714) 952-6114 | | McDonnell Douglas M&E | Internet: spain@mdcbbs.com | | 5701 Katella Ave. | UUCP: uunet!mdcbbs!spain | | Cypress, CA 90630 | PSI: PSI%31060099980019::SPAIN | =============================================================