Re: Slrnpull

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 02 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

[...]

>> Works great. I would not hesitate to recommend it and can offer help
>> setting it up, should you require some.
> 
> Thanks for the offer.  The reason I've steered clear of leafnode, is
> I've noticed many comments about it using some kind of heuristics to
> determine what groups to get etc.

It fetches groups that have been read recently, yes. 

> I don't really want heuristics.  I want to tell an app exactly what to
> get and have it get all messages from my list, always.

Right. Well, leafnode doesn't do that by default. The Debian package for
it comes with a Perl hack that lets you list some newsgroups and then
"reads" each of them every night from a cron job...

> Is that easily done with leafnode?  I had hoped it would be with
> slrnpull, and maybe it is.  I have the downloading working well now.
> Very simple and straightforward.  I just had a dumb typo in my code.

If what you have works, go for it. I like leafnode /because/ it does
some management automatically and because it's not hard to add some
"permanent" groups.

It works for me, maybe not for you. I don't think it's /better/ than
slrnpull, though, just different.

        Daniel

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