MT-Newswatcher and changing servers

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Scott - 16 Feb 2005 14:24 GMT

Officially, if you change news servers with MT-Newswatcher, you lose
your list of read/unread messages.

I'm going to switch Usenet servers in a couple of weeks, and I'd like to
be able to preserve those records (rather than sort through thousands of
messages to find what I've read). Any trick to transferring the
mark-as-read messages when the new server is selected?

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jere7my tho?rpe - 16 Feb 2005 18:46 GMT

> Officially, if you change news servers with MT-Newswatcher, you lose
> your list of read/unread messages.
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> messages to find what I've read). Any trick to transferring the
> mark-as-read messages when the new server is selected?

Sure. Create a filter that marks as read all articles posted before the
time you stopped using the old server. Then, when you start using the
new server, they'll all be cleared out, and you can delete the filter.

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Isaac Wingfield - 17 Feb 2005 04:27 GMT

You can't do that. Each message that shows up on a news server in some
particular newsgroup, is assigned the next sequential number after the
previous one. When you log in, your newsreader says "send me all
messages after number ####" and then updates your local list as you read
messages during each session.

The problem is that the count, and therefore the numbers, are peculiar
to each individual news server.

When you change servers, you will have to go through the process of
reinitializing your reader to the message counts on the new server; no
way around it.

Isaac

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Sander Tekelenburg - 17 Feb 2005 05:05 GMT

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> I'm going to switch Usenet servers in a couple of weeks, and I'd like to
> be able to preserve those records (rather than sort through thousands of
> messages to find what I've read). Any trick to transferring the
> mark-as-read messages when the new server is selected?

MT-NW can handle multiple new sservers quite nicely. If you will have a
transition period during which you'll have access to both servers, just
add the new server and in prefs->Article management enable "Mark
articles read that have been read on another server".

Of course this is only necessary if you don't always mark all articles
read after reading a group. Otherwise you could just as well, once
having switched to the new news server, option click each newsgroup,
define what you consider recent enough, and fetch only those recent
articles. MT-NW will implicitly mark older articles as read.

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