From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35563 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slrnpull Date: 02 Apr 2001 14:52:51 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <87ofufhpi4.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171289 3795 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:34:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: slrnpull,doesn Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22641 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2001 04:54:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22636 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2001 04:54:42 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Apr 2001 04:54:42 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1972A887 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:53:59 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D5DD82045; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:52:52 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "01 Apr 2001 20:11:10 -0700") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: quiche bomb Ft. Meade Mossad NSA Clinton Craig Livingstone counter-intelligence Ruby Ridge cracking JFK terrorist smuggle Uzi militia User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Urania) Original-Lines: 29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35563 On 01 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone running slrnpull here, that can coach me a bit? No, but I can correct one factual mistake in your comments... [...] > Kai Writes: > >> Maybe slrn doesn't come with an NNTP server? Maybe you are expected >> to read these articles directly off the directory? > [...] >> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool "" >> (nnspool-spool-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull") >> (nnspool-nov-directory "???"))) > > The slrnpull docs say it doesn't but it also says leafnode doesn't. It's wrong. Leafnode /is/ an NNTP server. I use it daily to do news on my disconnected laptop and my small 23/7 home site. Works great. I would not hesitate to recommend it and can offer help setting it up, should you require some. Daniel -- A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish. -- Cervantes, _The Dialogue of the Dogs_, 1613