Re: offline news reader

2007-10-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:26:07 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello John, > Install leafnode and then use any newsreader you please. :-)) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I must be hallucinating, wa

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Brad Rogers writes: > Currently, the only way to cache articles is by selecting each group's > messages then performing an "Article/cache". This is not suitable > behaviour for somebody on a dial-up account, paying by the minute, > because it adds to the time taken. They need to be able to go onl

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:03:30 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mumia, > Pan 0.132 does do offline news reading. It's called "article caching" Article caching is fine, but it's not ideally suited to OLR use. To work effectively as an OLR, new Pan would have to have D/L headers &

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On 2007-10-14, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, d-u *is* gated to a newsgroup: linux.debian.user Darn you for having me poke at gmane.org. :P -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 1FC01004 | And dream I do... --

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/15/2007 08:20 AM, David Fox wrote: [...] And then it deletes those article cache files upon exit, so this "offline" news reading doesn't seem to want to work in pan. I haven't experienced the deleting of cached files upon exit in Pan 0.132. Go into the preferences and make sure that "C

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-15 Thread David Fox
On 10/14/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There doesn't seem to be a way to set the cache size. Perhaps this is > one of things that the other poster was referring to when he wrote > "isn't fully featured." ;-) Perhaps there is, but it doesn't seem to take effect. I use the development

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/14/2007 09:38 PM, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: With Pan, it's only the stable branch (0.14.x) that does OLR. The development branch (currently 0.132, IIRC) won't. In any event, the dev branch isn't fully featured yet, which is something that Kamaraju specified, albeit indirectly. Pan 0.

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
>> With Pan, it's only the stable branch (0.14.x) that does OLR. The >> development branch (currently 0.132, IIRC) won't. >> >> In any event, the dev branch isn't fully featured yet, which is >> something that Kamaraju specified, albeit indirectly. >> >> > Pan 0.132 does do offline news reading

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Mumia W.. wrote: On 10/14/2007 03:25 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: With Pan, it's only the stable branch (0.14.x) that does OLR. The development branch (currently 0.132, IIRC) won't. Pan 0.132 does do offline news reading. It's called "article caching" in the new pan. Not only that but Pan ha

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/14/2007 03:25 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:42:21 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mumia, I forgot to mention slrn (with slrnpull) and pan. They also do With Pan, it's only the stable branch (0.14.x) that does OLR. The development branch (currently 0

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:27:00 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Sjoerd, > Well, d-u *is* gated to a newsgroup: linux.debian.user I was unaware of that fact. I sit corrected. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever imm

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:22:09 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:46:03 +0200 Pál Csányi wrote: > > Could somebody explain how can I read debian-user list with pan? > > Pan is a news reader. It can't receive email, except where email is > gated to a newsgroup. Well, d-u *is* gated t

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:46:03 +0200 "Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Pál, Answer re-directed back to list as I suspect this wasn't meant to come directly to me. > Could somebody explain how can I read debian-user list with pan? Pan is a news reader. It can't receive email, exce

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread John W. Foster
On Saturday 13 October 2007 16:45, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > > I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. > However there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. > Normally this is not a problem. However recently my net speed has reduced > to c

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:42:21 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mumia, > I forgot to mention slrn (with slrnpull) and pan. They also do With Pan, it's only the stable branch (0.14.x) that does OLR. The development branch (currently 0.132, IIRC) won't. In any event, the dev bran

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Sven Joachim
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> gnus > > Does it come with any documentation at all? The /usr/share/doc/gnus seems to > be pretty useless for setting this up. See [1], which is apparently not going to be fixed; the Debian Gnus maintainer does no

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2007 04:45 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Hi I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. [...] I forgot to mention slrn (with slrnpull) and pan. They also do offline news reading.

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. Take a look at either leafnode or noffle. I used one or the other for caching news in the past. Worked great on my la

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071013 22:49]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > gnus > > Does it come with any documentation at all? The /usr/share/doc/gnus seems to > be pretty useless for setting this up. > > apt-cache search gnus documentation > > does not yield any relevant h

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Oct 13, 2:40 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However > there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. Normally > this is not a problem. However recently my net speed has reduced t

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2007 04:45 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Hi I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. [...] Icedove and Iceape support offline news reading. Icedove and Iceape are rebranded Mozi

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Russell L. Harris wrote: > > gnus Does it come with any documentation at all? The /usr/share/doc/gnus seems to be pretty useless for setting this up. apt-cache search gnus documentation does not yield any relevant hits. I could go to google and try to look for some tutorial but if every Debian

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071013 16:42]: > Hi > > I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However > there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. Normally > this is not a problem. However recently my net speed has reduced to couple

offline news reader

2007-10-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. Normally this is not a problem. However recently my net speed has reduced to couple of kB and it is difficult to wait for 5 seconds for each message to l

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How does Gnus replace leafnode? I currently have a small inn spool so > I can read offline, so could that also be replace with just Gnus? Do > you have any suggestions on how to set that up, and where to read? Well for off-line reading you would use

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > If I am offline then I need to spool the news, and slrn with > > slrnpull looks like a likely choice. > > If you don't want Gnus and (X)Emacs, then the above is a good choice - or > slrn with leafn

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Al Nikolov
I use leafnode + tin (rtin, to be accurate).

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Glyn Millington
Ian Balchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If I am offline then I need to spool the news, and slrn with > slrnpull looks like a likely choice. If you don't want Gnus and (X)Emacs, then the above is a good choice - or slrn with leafnode works well. Leafnode is designed for a small set-up and ce

Re: offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Ian! On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Ian Balchin wrote: > Hi, > > Time to get news going on my machine. I want an offline mail > reading system that can dial in via my isp to collect news from > local server (news.saix.net i think). > > I have been looking thru dselect for in packages opt-news and see

offline news reader

2002-02-14 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, Time to get news going on my machine. I want an offline mail reading system that can dial in via my isp to collect news from local server (news.saix.net i think). I have been looking thru dselect for in packages opt-news and see quite a variety. It seems that I should install packages to get