searchgroup and detach server (which has strict enabled)

DDX · Post by **DDX** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:43 am

i have 2 newsservers :

newszilla.xs4all.nl with priority 128 and Strict enabled
news.astraweb.com with priority 60

both servers have msg-id direct enabled

now i create an seachgroup

#group1

which has an xpath search on the newsgroup alt.binaries.dvd

since xs4all doesn't have this group I detached newszilla.xs4all.nl from this 'newsgroup'

but it still tries to download all the articles from newszilla.xs4all.nl

when I disable msg-id direct on newszilla.xs4all.nl it stops trying to download

is there a way to leave msg-id direct on (for other searchgroups)
but disable it on the current searchgroup ?

rtwo · Post by **rtwo** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:06 pm

You can click on the plus (+) sign in front of #group1, click right on newszilla and detach the newsserver, easy as that..

bruce73 · Post by **bruce73** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:10 pm

AFAIK, the enable/disable message-ID on a specific server is a global setting, and cannot be applied per newsgroup. You might try losing the Strict setting on the newszilla server and giving the astraweb server a higher priority (if that fits into your overall scheme). It won't necessarily eliminate the newszilla server's trying to download the articles, but it might increase efficiency.

alex · Post by **alex** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:40 pm

downoading articles settings (like message-id direct) are applied cross-group, otherwise the border would be somewhat uncertain (e.g. an article could belong to several newsgroups with different settings).

also the delay/bandwidth price of misses is small, given the conveyer-like, sequential nature of the queue (if you want to do it because astraweb more complete than the isp server) if the isp server has available article task slots.