From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17627 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: batch downloading from remote server w/o local NNTP server? Date: 07 Oct 1998 18:36:42 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156294 1915 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:24:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28793 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:37:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAF02224; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:37:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA09464 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:36:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28782 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:36:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id SAA24137; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:36:43 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id SAA23552; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:36:42 +0200 Original-To: Jochen_Hayek@ACM.org In-Reply-To: Jochen_Hayek@ACM.org's message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:59:53 GMT" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070033 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.33) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17627 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 -- OOP: object oriented programming; OOPS: object oriented mistakes