From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35622 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slrnpull Date: 04 Apr 2001 09:42:29 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <87k851zh22.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <87ofufhpi4.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171337 4109 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: leafnode,works,groups,daniel Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25201 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2001 00:50:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25196 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2001 00:50:08 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2001 00:50:08 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82FD2A887 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:49:35 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2037F82020; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:42:30 +1000 (EST) Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "02 Apr 2001 22:42:20 -0700") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: Bosnia White Water Area 51 CIA David John Oates Project Monarch strategic Ft. Meade Legion of Doom jihad Nazi Waco, Texas Roswell colonel World Trade Center User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Urania) Original-Lines: 38 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35622 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35622 On 02 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote: > Daniel Pittman 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 -- Did you ever hear anyone say `That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?' -- Joseph Henry Jackson