#25 Newsgroup listings in unique file per server

[Fred Newtz]

I have about 10-12 servers I download from and each
time I go through a download session it tries each
server. Well, the newsgroups are spread out between
the different servers, so it would be nice to have a way
to either log the fact that a newsgroup is not on a
specific server and remember those settings or have
different newsgroup listings per server. I think the first
idea is more plausable though.

[Frederick Bruckman]

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You can stop that, for specific groups, by specifying prio=
in the galias section for some suitable configured priority
(in the hpriority secion). It's documented. It would be
nice, though, if there were a way to specify, in the default
section, to only use servers that have the group. Examples
speak louder than words:

{hpriority
{default
_level?=5.5
giganews?=3.3
teranews=1.2 # teranews has all the groups
biggulp?=0.1
}
}

Note that "?=" is taken to mean "set to this value only if
the group is listed in the newsgroups file for that server,
otherwise, set to zero". This would do the right thing for
unconfigured groups at the expense of some run-time
overhead, while giving the user the option of avoiding the
overhead for configured groups, or even of eschewing the
whole thing (by simply removing the question mark's from his
default section). The supplied default config should
probably have something like "level?=1.0", which would still
"do the right thing" for most users.