Guy <Use-Reply-To-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:

>>> No the AltServers are coming from the Group (binaries)
>>> portion. AltServers do not work on Folders, only on Groups.
>> 
>> My altservers for the queue are definitely coming from the
>> entry I illustrated. 
>> 
> 
> Yes, but it is coming from the "binaries", not the "qw" part of
> the [group.expression]. 

None of my queues have ever had the word "binary" or "binaries" in 
the name.

> Test it out yourself if you like. 
> Xnews does not perform AltServers on Folder names only on Group
> names. 

This is doing my head in as I do not seem to get the same results 
when I return to the same settings.  I am working carefully makinh 
one change at a time and I am closing/relaunching Xnews each time 
(although for GROUPS.INI this does not seem to be strictly necessary 
for entries like the main server override).

Grrrr!

The furstrating result I am getting is that there is no altserver 
list set in XNEWS.INI but I get altservers tried in my folders.  And 
the particularly weird thing is that the first named server in 
altservers is NOT tried if the main server does have the article but 
instead the second (and last) named server in alterservers is tried 
immediately after the main server fails.

GRRRRRRR!!!

What is going on?

I then disabled all alteserver entries everywhere and still there is 
an altserver accessed on the queues but it is one which is nowhere 
defined!  

Maybe there is something in the registry (am using XP Pro) as I knw 
that Xnews does do some registry setting.

I am stumped.  Maybe it is a bug somewhere in Xnews itself?  Who 
knows.

> 
> Duplicate the sections and make the top one only for the Queue
> Folders commenting out the AltServers line with a ";" in the
> original section and see if you still get them to function.
> 
> See MID: <Xns93A5DCE845C8DInsomniac@news.cis.dfn.de>

I don't want to be the funny guy but I don't understand this post 
(although I have been learning a lot about queues in the last few 
days from the poster, Tech Zero).  I have to say that I don't even 
properly understand his conclusion in that posting: 

"When looking for the AltServers to use X-News does it base on the 
group it was pulled from and not the queue file it is currently 
using. As such there is no way to set-up a queue file to react to 
server time-outs the way X-News does "Pre-Alt -Server"; as in 
indefinitely retry the sever it was "Queued" from."