[SLE] OT Any good off-line news readers?
I am looking for a good offline news reader. What's good? 1) Anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend online. 2) Anything that I can set up as a cron job to get the news. I thought about trying to set up a news server but I was hoping there was something easier. Rod -- 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Rod C. Johnson wrote:
I am looking for a good offline news reader. What's good?
1) Anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend online. 2) Anything that I can set up as a cron job to get the news.
I thought about trying to set up a news server but I was hoping there was something easier.
I understand that Agent and Free Agent run well under WINE, but I have had some problems with them. I also understand that SLRN with SLRNPull will operate as an offline reader, Leafnode is simple to set up, if you wish to run your own server for just a few groups and will also operated to just download the headers and then articles you want to read in "agent" mode. Mike -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"Rod C. Johnson" wrote:
I am looking for a good offline news reader. What's good?
1) Anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend online. 2) Anything that I can set up as a cron job to get the news.
I thought about trying to set up a news server but I was hoping there was something easier.
Setting up leafnode is almost the simplest thing I've seen. The problem is it will get all messages in a group. I don't know if it will get just headers. Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:24:36PM -0500, Nick Zentena wrote:
"Rod C. Johnson" wrote:
I am looking for a good offline news reader. What's good?
1) Anything that minimizes the amount of time I spend online. 2) Anything that I can set up as a cron job to get the news.
I thought about trying to set up a news server but I was hoping there was something easier.
Setting up leafnode is almost the simplest thing I've seen. The problem is it will get all messages in a group. I don't know if it will get just headers.
I use leafnode to download news, and tin (rtin) to read it. Leafnode is intended to fetch news and provide NNTP services for a small site, and does work well. You can probably choose any number of readers. As for only getting headers, 'man leafnode' mentions an option: delaybody = 1 With this option set, fetchnews (8) fetches only the headers of an article for visual inspection. Only when the headers have been read, the bodies of the articles will be retrieved the next time fetch news (8) is called. This can save a huge amount of download time and disk space. I haven't used this, but may give it a try sometime, since I probably only read <1% of the articles. -- Ken Irving Trident Software jkirving@mosquitonet.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Thanks to everyone for the recommendations. I am going to take a look at leafnode since it sounds like it is easy to set up. Rod -- 100% MS FREE Absolutely no component of Microsoft was used in the generation or posting of this e-mail. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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