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Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry?

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On 2025-05-25 11:51, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> (138.0.2)
> I have set up (service from) two news servers, but they remain separate 
> - any newsgroup that's on both appears as a separate entity, with 
> articles/threads having different "read/not read" status.
> 
> Is there any way to merge them, so that I only see one set - or, at 
> least, when I read a post in one, it's marked read in the other?

Yes, but not with TB alone.

In Linux, you can use an nntp proxy server using Leafnode, and then 
point TB to leafnode instead.

Leafnode can connect to several nntp servers and combine them. You get 
all the posts, though, so if one server has spam filtering and the other 
doesn't, you will get the spam.

I am not aware of a similar software in Windows. You can install it in a 
Linux server for your entire LAN, though.

> 
> Apologies if the is a newbie question; last time I used Thunderbird was 
> I think in single-digit version numbers (the same may have been the case 
> then, but I would have only been using one news server).
> 
> And: is there any way of setting an "expiry" period, such that posts - 
> unless manually starred (or tagged or something similar) - disappear 
> <period> after downloading, whether read or not?

Yes, with a filter. Also in age settings. James posted the exact place.

  (Former Turnpike user,
> which is where I get the term "expiry" - it may be called something 
> else, if it exists. I could in TP set a different expiry per newsgroup - 
> I had 3 days for most. [Oh, and TP merged across 'groups no problem; it 
> showed available servers for each 'group, and you could select/switch 
> server (per 'group) any time, and the "read" state of posts didn't 
> change (though you occasionally got repeat downloads of a few posts).]

If you set a expiry age of 3 days, you will have problems.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-05-25 10:51 +0100
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-25 15:56 +0100
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-25 11:30 -0400
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-01 13:32 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-01 14:03 -0400
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? James <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-25 15:36 +0000
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-01 12:58 +0100
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-25 21:11 +0200
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2025-05-25 23:10 +0200
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:28 +0200
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2025-05-26 17:50 +1200
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:34 +0200
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-01 13:40 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-06-01 14:05 +0100
        Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-03 13:38 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-01 15:36 -0400
        Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-03 13:50 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-04 15:23 +0200
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-05-25 20:01 -0500
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:37 +0200
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2025-05-27 16:01 +1000
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-04 15:18 +0200
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-05-26 16:54 +0200

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