On 2004-07-29, Paul Johnson penned: > --=-=-= > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: >>> I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of >>> news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when >>> roadrunner is not jam packed. >> >> I can't answer your actual configuration questions, but have you >> looked at leafnode? It seems to provide the functionality you want. >> Just set up a fetchnews cronjob for whenever you'd rather pull it. > > Leafnode is sort of a poor choice in the long term. In pretty much > all error conditions, it silently drops articles. It doesn't know > what a moderated newsgroup is. It doesn't support NNTPAUTH. I could > go on, but leafnode's enough of a headache thinking about it. >
I can't speak to any of those concerns. I've been using it for the last um, something like a year or so just so that slrn will display all of the newsgroups I care about in one session, and it's worked okay for me as a very simple way to provide a local copy of news. Which is what the OP asked about. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
