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Re: Very good newsfeeder for offline reading: Leafnode
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
>Did you test expiring? When I expired some messages, (say a hundred from
Not yet but I use tin to read news and it seems to delete what is to be
deleted (i.e. read messages disappear etc).
>c.o.l.advocacy), the same number of empty messages appeared (using pine)
>all marked D, but not going away. I also had problems with the automatic
>unsubscribing of newsgroups, if I had not disabled it, it unsubscribed
>all my newsgroups every time I ran fetch.
I think that you managed to misconfigure it. Mine has been fetching
articles for a few days now, no mistakes. I did not yet unsub from a
group. I'll try this now. I was never convinced by the pine newsreader,
although I use it all the time for mail...
I'll write a script to be able to expire and unsub groups easier (for now
one has to delete files in interesting.groups).
>>I settled for sn (0.2.3 currently), which is similiar to leafnode, and
sn-0.2.3 < leafnode-1.9 ;)
>The main problem with sn (which, according to the author, is not going
>to be solved easily as it is fundamental), is that if you download (at
>the same time) two groups that have some messages in common (like
>c.o.l.advocacy and gnu.misc.discuss), those messages will appear
>multiple times. The workaround I use is to download the suspect groups
>one at a time (not the default behaviour).
So sn uses more than 1 connection to the NNTP server at a time ? Else,
there is no excuse for this.
If I'll run into troubles with leafnode I'll probably fix it ;) I like the
way it works.
Peter