Demon News Service
Peter Vincent
In message <diP0FWA2...@demon.net> to demon.announce
Malcolm S. Muir wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the upgrade of our Usenet news service
> to a more powerful system that will improve both the retention of
> articles and their availability.
>
> This service has been in public beta test for several weeks so we
> do not anticipate any problems with the upgrade, but customers
> should note:
>
> The current servers will be stopped on Tuesday August 27th at
> 10:00 BST. The current beta news service will be withdrawn at
> the same date and time.
>
> The new servers will be available for customer use from
> Tuesday August 27th at 15:00 BST.
[snip]
> Customers who collect news using the 'newnews' command should
> not be unduly affected by the change. Such customers may however
> wish to 'wind back' the date / time of last news collection by a
> short period to ensure they do not miss any articles.
>
> Article numbering on the new service is different from the
> current service. Customers who collect news via article number
> must reset their news readers to receive articles from the new
> server. Many news clients will have a command for this or will
> correct for the change automatically. You may have to tell
> some software that you've moved to a new news server (even though
> it has the same name).
[snip]
Can someone please advise me what, if anything, needs to be done on
NewsHound since, as usual, the list of platforms for which specific help
files are available excludes RISC OS.
As an interim I have reconfigured to fetch from <oldnews> to ensure I do not
loose the replies to this posting!
--
Peter Vincent
Stuart Painting
> Can someone please advise me what, if anything, needs to be done on
> NewsHound since, as usual, the list of platforms for which specific help
> files are available excludes RISC OS.
Sorry if this is a bit of a vague answer but I don't use NewsHound and
I didn't want you hanging in limbo (not sure how many other people
monitor this newsgroup these days).
The "do nothing" option should, in principle, work. That is, just
change the servername back from "oldnews" to "news".
If you can work out how to do it, you might want to wind back the
"date/time of last news fetch" by a few hours (or one day to be
absolutely sure) but to be honest I doubt you'll miss many articles.
If you do run into serious problems, I suggest you ask again on
comp.sys.acorn.apps or comp.sys.acorn.misc - they're much more likely
to have someone who knows what he's talking about :-)
> As an interim I have reconfigured to fetch from <oldnews> to ensure I do not
> loose the replies to this posting!
A wise move on your part. The new news server cluster is, er, slightly
lacking in performance this evening.
Ben Shimmin
> Peter Vincent <pe...@vincefam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Can someone please advise me what, if anything, needs to be done on
> > NewsHound since, as usual, the list of platforms for which specific help
> > files are available excludes RISC OS.
>
> Sorry if this is a bit of a vague answer but I don't use NewsHound and
> I didn't want you hanging in limbo (not sure how many other people
> monitor this newsgroup these days).
I'm sure there's still a few of us. :)
> The "do nothing" option should, in principle, work. That is, just
> change the servername back from "oldnews" to "news".
Absolutely. (I would've replied in precisely the same vein, but Stuart
beat me to it.)
> If you can work out how to do it, you might want to wind back the
> "date/time of last news fetch" by a few hours (or one day to be
> absolutely sure) but to be honest I doubt you'll miss many articles.
In the old version of Newshound I have, at least, I think this is just as
simple a matter as changing a few digits in the relevant news server
groupfile, but, as Stuart says, it's probably not necessary unless getting
every single news article is absolutely mission critical.
I hope this works out for you.
b.
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