Daniel Gross wrote: > > Hi all! > > Thanks to the ones, who helped me with my "smail configuration problem". > (Martin Bialasinski, David Stern and Bob Nielsen) > > But, NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Hey it's not so different at all. > Now that my eMail works fine, I also want to access to USENET News. Until now, > I could read it online (using tin), but the german Telekom (our phone company) > has horrible fares, so I want to download my (a little more than a) handfull > newsgroups, and read it offline. Another thing is, that the "From:" field is > not filled with the right address. It allways contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] > which is > not very usefull (even when it prevents you from spam mails). > > Can anyone help me again? What should I do? Configuring my own (local) news > server? Using an other newsreader? > > Thanks in advance! > > Daniel Gross
You can also use "pnf" which is like suck. To quote the README: > PNF is Personal News Fetcher. It's intended use is similar to that of suck, > that is, to get articles to feed a small news spool. > > PNF came into existence during the late summer of 1996 to cope with > the frequent news problems my ISP was having, the most challenging to > suck being an intermittently broken history database. Because of > suck's method of avoiding re-downloading cross-posts, it downloads > with HEAD/BODY/ARTICLE <Message-ID> NNTP commands. Since Message-ID > based commands depend on a good history database, an alternative was > necessary. The well-known perl 'seen' hash array idiom was employed > to get an as-you-go duplicate checker, and when combined with Rodger > Anderson's NNTPClient module, the immediate problem was handled in > surprisingly short order. ... > PNF now does more or less what suck does, plus some other things that may > give it reason to exist beyond its current home. It can send articles > directly to an NNTP server through IHAVE, avoiding intermediate storing > and batching. It can pipe an rnews batch to a program, say, pnews_expand > from Jim Buchanan's pnews package, again avoiding storing. Because of > its newsreader-like downloading approach, it accomodates the use by > ISPs of reader-only machines with nnrpds with their history shorted out > (Who could that have been?). Finally, and most telling I think, it's written > in Perl! :-) ( Egil Kvaleberg's NewsX does IHAVE and rnews to a pipe, and > other nifty things, among them many features targeted for bigger setups > than PNF is meant for. You can run a multiuser news spool with NewsX. > You probably couldn't with PNF.) The only drawback is that pnf isn't a debian package. I had no trouble getting it to work. Check comp.os.linux.announce archive for more details. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
