Measuring reader traffic

[Patrick Schreurs]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Antonio Aneiros wrote:

> > You can use a frontend nntp server, like nntpswitch
> > (www.nntpswitch.org) or dreader from diablo. These
> > frontends can switch to a backup server when the primary
> > server becomes unavailable.
>
> Just a question: how does nntpswitch deal with article numbering?

It doesn't ;)

> I guess that is a server-side problem so you have to make sure article=20
> numbering is the same for all servers... is that so?

Correct. nntpswitch assumes the article numbers on the spools
are synchronized ie are configured as xref slaves.

Patrick
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