Re: Couple of (configuration?) problems.

[Neil Woods]

Dirk Gerrits <dirk@dirkgerrits.com> writes:

> 2.  My ISP and my university both provide me with newsgroups, but they
>      both restrict it to IP addresses on their network.  So with my
>      laptop plugged in back home, I can access news.chello.nl, but not
>      news.tue.nl, and plugged in at the university it's the other way
>      around.  Can I somehow configure Gnus for this situation?  I'd like
>      Gnus to try news.tue.nl first, and then fall-back to news.chello.nl.
>      And, ideally, I'd like it to have the same set of subscribed
>      newsgroup and read articles on both news servers.  Can Gnus do this?
>      Or do you know of something else I could do?

If I understand you correctly, I'm not sure that this is entirely
straightforward with Gnus. From the Gnus manual:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Changing Servers") ]
|    Article numbers are not (in any way) kept synchronized between
| different NNTP servers, and the only way Gnus keeps track of what
| articles you have read is by keeping track of article numbers.  So when
| you change `gnus-select-method', your `.newsrc' file becomes worthless.
`----

However, the above section does also include hints on how to achieve
the above.

-- 
Neil