From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47045 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clemens Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Offline mail and group cooperation Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:25:56 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <873crj1ggd.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=latin-iso8859-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034035246 11141 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2002 00:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yhnp-0002tY-00 for ; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:00:45 +0200 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 17yhnP-0007Xj-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:01:01 -0500 (CDT) 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 TAA13096 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:00:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16277 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16272 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yhmY-0002q4-00 for ; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:59:26 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yhmX-0002pv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:59:25 +0200 Original-Path: ID-23066.news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd90559c4.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034035165 10904 217.5.89.196 (7 Oct 2002 23:59:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:59:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/91A5M421Nxm9+e6oMl0J8Sgki4= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47045 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47045 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann): >> Another alternative might be to install a news server for our group, >> and everybody installs leafnode on their laptop. > > I wonder how come that nobody commented on this alternative? > > Is anyone out there using this? How does it work? Does anyone have > experience with this versus doing the shared folder thing via IMAP? leafnode has local groups, but it is hard to find a good mail2news gate. one of the leafnode maintainers (joerg dietrich) has promised to give his implementation a touch up, though. then there is an often referenced python script, but it writes to the spool directly. gnus users would propably prefer to use the nntp interface. also, leafnode is easy to configure by design, and it is actively developed by a very considerate developer (matthias andree). clemens