Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:05:00 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using slurp Message-ID: <199707250205.KAA05079@vas.tomsk.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970723161136.3792A-100000@uniqsite.com> from "Nick Liu" at "Jul 23, 97 04:13:41 pm"
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Nick Liu wrote: > > > > > > I tried to use slurp to fetch new articles from my ISP. > > > > I think it is a better idea to use suck instead of slurp. I switched after I > > noticed the following bug: when there are a lot of crossposts, slurp damages > > the article. > > > > I think also that suck does not load your ISP as much as slurp does because > > suck does not use "newnews". Please correct me if I am wrong. > > > > OK. I will be trying it. BTW, traditionally, if I wanted to leave the > news on the serve, which directory should I choose? And... Any news > reader to access the news that was downloaded? IMHO the best solution is to install a newsserver, INN for example, and then use suck to feed the news to it. Then you can read news with whatever newsreader you like over NNTP. Personally I prefer tin, though sometimes I use Netscape. If you wish to have a look at my script to download news from the ISP and to feed it to INN afterwards, I can post it here. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm
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