Hello mark,   
      
   On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:30:44 -0500, mark lewis -> Nicholas Boel wrote:   
      
    NB>> Synchronet does indeed have it's own NNTP server.   
      
    ml> in any case, if SBBS has its own news server and it automatically   
    ml> renumbers, then it has some method to keep the numbers straight... you   
    ml> can't easily do that with a 3rd party server that doesn't keep up with   
    ml> them... JAMNNTPd is such a 3rd party news server and i'm not aware of   
    ml> any other being available to serve FTN messages...   
      
   Even if your message bases were set to renumber, I doubt any client would ever   
   know that.   
      
    ml> [time passes]   
      
    ml> aww, crap... i found the settings for the SBBS news server in the   
    ml> services.ini :rolleyes:   
      
   There ya go. :)   
      
    ml> it just seems like it would be in sbbs.ini along with [BBS], [Mail],   
    ml> [FTP] and [Web] :?   
      
   It would seem so, but it could have been considered a lesser important   
   service, which seems to be what services.ini contains.   
      
   Anyhow, sorry to go off topic. Back to your originally scheduled NNTP server.   
   :)   
      
   Regards,   
   Nick   
      
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