Re: Importing an Old INN News Spool.

Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> My current plan is create the groups with snnewgroup (what do I do for a
> moderated newsgroup, e.g. comp.compilers, I'd guess stick something in
> comp.compilers/.outgoing?) and then turn each of the articles in my old

Quoting from an old mail from Harold:
> For normal newsgroups, those are automatically moderated anyway,
> because the upstream site would forward the article to the
> moderator.
So apparently you just set up the .outgoing link, and see if your upstream
server does the right thing. ("Apparently" because I've never posted to
moderated groups with sn, so I'm not totally sure.)

> spool into wire format before catting them all into snstore.  Does that
> sound like I'm on the right path?

Sounds like a good plan, yes. If you create any scripts for this, there
probably might be others interested in them too so please share. :)

> Will it matter that there is no .serial for any of the newsgroups when
> I'm doing this?  Will sn continue OK later when snget contacts the same
> news server that INN used to?

It should work provided you have the bug fix I did for .serial handling in
snget recently. :) I'll get a sn-0.3.5-pre1 with that fix out ASAP.

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