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From: prep@prep.synonet.com
Subject: Re: Leafnode
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 04:04:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sm0lvcu3.fsf@prep.synonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2br7brl3x.fsf@flatsoft.no-ip.info>

Flatman <flatman@swing.be> writes:

> As I'm using 5 news servers and don't like the way agent handles
> them for offline reading/posting (plugged/unplugged) I figured out I
> could install my own local server .

> I thought about installing Leafnode.  Anybody uses this with gnus ?
> Are you happy with it ? What are the missing features, if any ? How
> do you feal about the auto handling of groups and expiration ?

Biggest problem is low trafic groups that can get dropped then
re-started.  This resets the item numbers and all the new post are
considered by gnus to be `old', and and items archived in the cache
are now out of sequence.

It also has problems at time with large groups.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-17 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-16 20:06 Leafnode Flatman
2005-05-16 21:00 ` Leafnode Glyn Millington
2005-05-16 22:42   ` Leafnode Flatman
2005-05-17  0:45 ` Leafnode johnsu01
2005-05-17 15:54 ` Leafnode Paolo Amoroso
2005-05-17 17:04   ` Leafnode Flatman
2005-05-17 20:04 ` prep [this message]

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