Re: batch downloading from remote server w/o local NNTP server?

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hm.  One possibility would be to use leafnode.  That's a nifty little
program which contains a little NNTP server and a program to fetch
news from an upstream server.  Leafnode automatically determines which
groups to download by looking at the groups you read.  (More detail:
it gets a list of all available groups, when you enter a group it
shows you a dummy article and remembers to download that group the
next time the fetch program is run.  When nobody has read group X for
N days, it will not be downloaded from the server any longer.)

But, Gnus is an offline reader itself!  The key words to search for in
the documentation are `agent' and `unplugged'.  I use this myself, and
it works quite nicely.  Took me some time to find out how to download
exactly those articles I wanted, but now it just works.  There's a
function for batch-mode downloading of stuff, along the lines of
``emacs -batch -f gnus-agent-batch'' or something.

kai
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