On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:06:13 +1030, Tim wrote:
I've seen other news clients work that way, and they made a right pig's breakfast of things when the same group was available on different servers, with the same messages but with different article numbers or message IDs, more so if a server didn't have all of the messages that you wanted to read (you didn't have a way to manually choose the server that you wanted, to try and work around it).
Does Pan get that right?
I can't say if pan gets that right (is there *any* way to get cross-server article re-indexing right?)
Pan does have a priority scheme where you rank each server as either primary or fallback. But nothing stops you from designating two primary servers for a particular group, and Zeus only knows what happens when they disagree.
--Jack