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

From "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry?
Date 2025-05-26 13:28 +0200
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On 2025-05-25 23:10, dillinger wrote:
> On 5/25/25 21:11, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> You can install leafnode on WSL, I have it running on Ubuntu on Win 10.
> It's tricky, but it can be done, and you'll learn a lot about WSL :)>>

I thought it might be possible, but I have no experience with WSL. Good 
to know :-)

...

-- 
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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