From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35627 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slrnpull Date: 04 Apr 2001 14:23:24 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <87snjpmgxv.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <87ofufhpi4.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87k851zh22.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 1035171341 4130 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:41 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: slrnpull,leafnode,daniel Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 27051 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2001 04:24:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27046 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2001 04:24:33 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2001 04:24:33 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114112A887 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:24:05 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 22A34820C1; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:23:25 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "03 Apr 2001 20:35:23 -0700") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: Waco, Texas encryption explosion fissionable Qaddafi Treasury NWO NORAD World Trade Center radar White Water colonel New World Order ammunition DES User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Urania) Original-Lines: 42 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35627 On 03 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote: > Daniel Pittman writes: [...] >> It works for me, maybe not for you. I don't think it's /better/ than >> slrnpull, though, just different. > > Seems like leafnode is a more complete piece of equipment. It's intention is to be a (non-scalable) news server for small sites that requires /no/ maintenance. It lives up to that. > But slrnpull may be a little simpler. Possibly. If it does expiry, posting and provides a simple interface to group selection, it's doing what leafnode does without the NNTP protocol between 'em. :) > I don't think it would be much fun to do lots of experimenting in > group selection and so forth with. There isn't any needed, really. Not in my experience, anyway. [...] > It has a config file where you list the groups you want by hand and it > gets them. Treats it like a newsrc list but not really interactive. > > I may try leafnode once I see what all slrnpull can do. If what you have works, stick with it. Change for the sake of change is not that helpful. Daniel -- My hands, unfaithful, did not protect me My voice, transparent, when I need it to scream What really happened during those nights? I could not move so I just turned off inside -- Switchblade Symphony, _Fear_ (Calamities)