Offline news(group) readers - comments solicited

Felix Karpfen · External Since: May 25, 2004 Posts: 38

The version of my preferred newsreader (Pan), that is included in the
recently-released Debian 4.0, has lost _all_ the features that made the
previous version of Pan attractive to me. Namely the abilities to:

a) download only the headers of new postings;
b) inspect the downloaded headers offline;
c) mark for retrieval, when next online. the full threads of the topics
that sound promising; and
d) block-delete the other headers.

Are there any newsreaders in the Linux world that still offer these
features?

Felix Karpfen

Peter D. · External Since: Dec 06, 2006 Posts: 71

Felix Karpfen wrote:

> The version of my preferred newsreader (Pan), that is included in the
> recently-released Debian 4.0, has lost _all_ the features that made the
> previous version of Pan attractive to me. Namely the abilities to:
>
> a) download only the headers of new postings;
> b) inspect the downloaded headers offline;
> c) mark for retrieval, when next online. the full threads of the topics
> that sound promising; and
> d) block-delete the other headers.
>
> Are there any newsreaders in the Linux world that still offer these
> features?
>
> Felix Karpfen

Depending on why you like those features, you might do well to
run you own small news server, like leafnode.

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Peter D.

Felix Karpfen · External Since: May 25, 2004 Posts: 38

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:19:50 +1000, Peter D. wrote:

> Felix Karpfen wrote:
>
>> The version of my preferred newsreader (Pan), that is included in the
>> recently-released Debian 4.0, has lost _all_ the features that made the
>> previous version of Pan attractive to me. Namely the abilities to:
>>
>> a) download only the headers of new postings;
>> b) inspect the downloaded headers offline;
>> c) mark for retrieval, when next online. the full threads of the topics
>> that sound promising; and
>> d) block-delete the other headers.
>>
>> Are there any newsreaders in the Linux world that still offer these
>> features?
>>
>> Felix Karpfen
>
> Depending on why you like those features, you might do well to
> run you own small news server, like leafnode.

Thank you for the advice.

I tried leafnode some 3 years ago. Then it seemed very slow in
downloading the bodies of flagged, previously downloaded message-headers.
Maybe, with an extra 3 years of Linux experience (and a faster computer)
I can mange to configure leafnode so that it will work better this time
round.

Your posting has given me the needed jog.

Felix Karpfen
>

Peter D. · External Since: Dec 06, 2006 Posts: 71

Felix Karpfen wrote:

[snip]
> I tried leafnode some 3 years ago. Then it seemed very slow in
> downloading the bodies of flagged, previously downloaded message-headers.
[snip]

Depending on how you have set it up, /fetchnews/ (the bit that
communicates with the outside world) is only called when you
connect to the net and then once an hour. It can be called
directly whenever you want.

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Peter D.