reading news from multiple NNTP servers.

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From: mike begley
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 01:07

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Is there ans newsreading software that will allow me to read news from
multiple NNTP servers?  For example, I read some news on from our local
server, and read some groups on a remote server.  I think it would be
to have another field in the .newsrc file that specifies what server the
groups are to be read from.  this would

  -widen the range of groups a user may read
  -allow users to spread their use over multiple sites, thereby spreading
   the load from some overloaded sites
  -lessen the danger of censorship by giving users a choice of server; they're
   not limited to the range of groups their administrator decides to carry.

Is this a possibility?

-mike begley
spam@iastate.edu
-- 
Michael Begley              Ask me how            A riot is the language
spam@iastate.edu      Iowa State University             of the unheard.
(515) 296-8378    is censoring my usenet access                      -MLK

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Subject: reading news from multiple NNTP servers.
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