Re: Newswatcher and Supernews

In article <310320081455010710%maser@xxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Maser <maser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <310320081136415713%dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave
Balderstone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is anyone else seeing a lot of duplicate posts from Supernews?

FWIW, I'm not...

Count yourself lucky. You're probably not subscribed to news groups
where we are seeing it. What you probably don't realize is you're
actually missing posts in other news groups. ; )

But that said -- having been subscribed to Supernews for a couple of
years now...

Why should I be worried about Giganews buying them out and taking them
over?

I had little problems resetting my groups list (checked all groups this
morning, then redid my group list after the server swap.)

Yep - and it;s a safe bet you missed posts as a result.

Am I missing something that makes Giganews "evil"? Everything (so far)
seems exactly the same to me as before the swap (after rebuilding my
group lists/article numbers of course...)

Giganews doesn't include a lot of headers in their overview.fmt
database, so you will only be able to filter on these specific headers:

Subject:
From:
Date:
Message-ID:
References:
Bytes:
Lines:
Xref:full

If you want to filter on any other headers, you'll have to switch news
providers.

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this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not
read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to
see your posts.

JR
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