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In article <1992Aug12.010716.16392@news.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (mike begley) writes:

   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?

GNUS has this capability, but implemented a different way.  It can
use ~/.newsrc-<server>, where <server> is the name of the server....
I'm not sure where to find it (I didn't install it), but you can
probably ask on gnu.emacs.gnus.
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The NNTP version of trn can do this, via the NNTPSERVER env variable.  I've
built a script which allows flexible access to multiple servers.  It will
store the required "dot" files (.newsrc, .rnlast, .rnsoft) in a $HOME
directory of .trrn-{nntpserver}-{user $NAME}.  You need to keep separate
.newsrc files for each NNTP server or else trn will get really confused.
Here's how I do it; my default NNTP server is news.cerf.net:

#!/bin/sh
NNTPSERVER=${NNTPSERVER:-news.cerf.net}
suffix=${NAME:+`echo $NAME|sed -e 's/[^[:alpha:]]//g'`}
DOTDIR=${DOTDIR:-"$HOME/.trrn-$NNTPSERVER${suffix:+-$suffix}"}
export DOTDIR NNTPSERVER
if [ ! -d $DOTDIR ] ; then
  echo I am creating the following DOTDIR directory for you: $DOTDIR
  echo This will prevent trrn from conflicting with your standard trn files.
  echo "Please press RETURN to continue...\c"
  read junk
  mkdir $DOTDIR
fi
PATH=/usr/contrib/bin/trrndir:$PATH
export PATH
/usr/contrib/bin/trrndir/trrn
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