From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43966 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [inn] How to have more than one server Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:12:22 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87bsdkw8yc.fsf@anchor.jibsheet.com> <87y9glnq37.fsf@anchor.jibsheet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016810279 18181 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 15:17:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oQnm-0004j1-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16oQm6-0000G1-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:16:14 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:16:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA13202 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:16:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21490 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2002 15:15:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21485 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 15:15:54 -0000 Original-Received: from www.dslextreme.com (HELO mail.dslextreme.com) (66.51.205.200) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2002 15:15:54 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by mail.dslextreme.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2MFGLCj006780 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:16:27 -0800 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2MFFKx11264; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:15:20 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87y9glnq37.fsf@anchor.jibsheet.com> (Kevin Falcone's message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:12:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1.80 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 35 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43966 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43966 Kevin Falcone writes: >>>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam writes: > > HP> I want to just say download these groups, put them in a newsrc or > HP> something and thats that, no tricky heuristics or the like. > > slrnpull does this. I have /var/spool/neu/slrnpull.conf which lists > groups I want to read. /var/spool/news is a symlink to > /var/spool/neu/news and I have two cron jobs, one to periodically > download news and one each day to expire. slrnpull wants inews to > post, but I have a little shell script which tricks it into putting > things into the out.going directory for slrnpull to post later. > > This was my setup for at least 4 years until I installed INN locally > as a precursor to upgrading a production box. > > However, this means you use nnspool and not nntp as your select > method, as you'll be reading right out of the filesystem. Hello Kevin, An overambitious spam filter trapped you reply. I've adjusted it now. Thanks for the input. I've also used slrnpull quite a while back, and gave up on it after some months. I don't really remember why now, but maybe the lack of an interface for updating .newsrc or something. Or maybe it was the inability to easily post immediately on demand. For one reason or another it seemed easier and more economical to just use gnus-agent. But as I mentioned, there always seems to be hassles that way too. I had that inews gimmick for posting too, but have long ago lost track of it. May be time for a retry. If you have time can you send me the script privately?