How to direct message id-s from bad to good servers?

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bassie
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How to direct message id-s from bad to good servers?

Post by bassie »

i have three servers:

News (form ISP)
news-west.newscene.com (payserver)
news-east.newscene.com (payserver).

The last two have usually everything complete. So that i ok.

The first one (news), usually only finds the headers, but when it comes to downloading it gives a question mark meaning that the article is not there.
The advantage is that usually News finds it quicker than the other servers, probably because News is smaller or that News gets the headers earlier.
I would like to use News only for getting the headers then and send the message id-s to the other servers so that it will speed up that other servers. Because they have now the message id-s.

I think it is associated with message-id direct option of the server. However I dont completely understand how to do that. Whatever i try, it keeps giving the question mark, and i don't think the other servers get data from News.

Any ideas someone?
alex
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Post by alex »

you just mark the rest of servers as message-id direct in properties->servers, newspro will be able to use them then for headers from the isp server.
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Post by bassie »

Thanks Alex for your reply.

I got to try this somewhat more.
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