Re: Right, I'm at it again...new usenet server

On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 23:01:43 +0200
Ivo Gandolfo <usenet@bofh.team> wrote:
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On 01/07/2024 07:18, Nigel Reed wrote:

Hi all,
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I know you get tired of me asking about transferring articles
between servers but I'm shit scared I'm going to flood the network
with 20 years worth of articles.
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On my new server, all the articles have the following path:
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Path:
newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com!spool1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!not-for-mail
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I'm going to rename my old server to "oldnewsfeed" and use the
following to feed all the articles from my existing server to the
new server...
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on the old server
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  cd /news/etc
  perl -ne 'chomp; our ($hash, $timestamps, $_) = split " "; \
    print "$_\n" if $_' history \
    | tr . / > /news/spool/outgoing/list
     innxmit newsfeed.endofthelinebbs.com list
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I'll configure incoming.conf newsfeeds and innfeed.conf so that I'm
not feeding any other servers and that oldnewsfeed is the only
server able to send to that host.
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Then I'll add my peers back in. Is that it? Am I safe? Am I going to
send everything off to my peers?
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and in case I do...sorry :)

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I have do it with pullnews and set my newsfeed file with a exclusion
path (if u add it, the article u receive never be feeded to the
other's your peer).
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Sincerely
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Well, with any luck, it's working. It looks like some peers will have
to restart or something. I'll be sending out an email shortly.