Comments on: New news server, woo hoo! http://blog.xcski.com/2007/07/03/new-news-server-woo-hoo Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:26:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Randy Bradakis http://blog.xcski.com/2007/07/03/new-news-server-woo-hoo#comment-35028 Randy Bradakis Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:00:40 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/07/03/new-news-server-woo-hoo#comment-35028 Heh. I read compass.announce and did the switch today. No worries. Thanks again for news swerving! Heh. I read compass.announce and did the switch today. No worries. Thanks again for news swerving!

]]> By: Stephen Harris http://blog.xcski.com/2007/07/03/new-news-server-woo-hoo#comment-34937 Stephen Harris Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:22:58 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/07/03/new-news-server-woo-hoo#comment-34937 Two ideas: 1) Stop all incoming/outgoing feeds for all the groups to the old server and then for each newsgroup that machine carries post a single message "You are using the old news server, switch to news.xcski.com and read compass.announce for details". or 2) just tell INN to reject incoming connections with "Wrong server! Use ...." messages. That should catch most readers. Two ideas:
1) Stop all incoming/outgoing feeds for all the groups to the old server and then for each newsgroup that machine carries post a single message “You are using the old news server, switch to news.xcski.com and read compass.announce for details”.

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2) just tell INN to reject incoming connections with “Wrong server! Use ….” messages.

That should catch most readers.

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