From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35598 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slrnpull Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:42:20 -0700 Message-ID: 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 1035171318 3998 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11761 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2001 05:42:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11756 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2001 05:42:30 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (209.144.112.246) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Apr 2001 05:42:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2240 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2001 05:42:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 3 Apr 2001 05:42:24 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f335gKg06628; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:42:20 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: Daniel Pittman In-Reply-To: <87ofufhpi4.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "02 Apr 2001 14:52:51 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35598 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35598 Daniel Pittman writes: [...] > > 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. Turns out it was an over ambitious interpretation from memory on my part: >>From slrnpull README [...] There are several other ``sucking'' programs available that perform a similar function as slrnpull. The best known are `leafnode' and `suck'. All of them, with the exception of `leafnode' require the user to run a newsserver program such as INN or CNEWS. Like `leafnode', slrnpull does not require a newsserver. [..] > 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. 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. 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. I still haven't gotten into trying out posting. I've had some tips on that though.