From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 25 14:36:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA25970 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (TSU-Relarn.Relarn.ru [194.226.29.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA25963 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id FAA25175 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:36:04 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id KAA05079 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:05:00 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199707250205.KAA05079@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: Using slurp To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:05:00 +0800 (TSD) Reply-To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su In-Reply-To: from "Nick Liu" at "Jul 23, 97 04:13:41 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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