Our Leafnode How-To

[David Cary Hart]

OK, I'm a usenet junkie. Leafnode (a tiny local news server) sits
between the LAN and the ISP's news server. It does lots of nifty things
in the background and provides an exquisitely simple, yet highly
effective, RegEx filter/killfile.

Maybe it's just me but Linux news clients don't seem to handle posts to
moderated groups very gracefully. When posting to NANAB, for example,
knode sort of hangs until it times out, showing the post as failed and
leaving it in the outbox. With leafnode, that problem is gone (or at
least not visible).

Leafnode is suitable as a stand-alone, to take advantage of the
filtering.

Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm
There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is
outdated) and a simplified configuration file (the distributed config
seems spectacularly disorganized).

Comments, suggestions, edits, raves and rants are certainly welcome OFF
LIST so that I'll actually read them. List traffic has been rather heavy
lately.
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[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:16:59 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:

>  Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm
>  There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is
>  outdated)  
Not just that. It's without maintainer, as its last packager cannot
be reached anymore. This increases the possibility that leafnode will
be removed from Fedora Extras, if nobody wants to update it.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages

-- 
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)users.sf.net&gt;
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1369_FC3
loadavg: 1.01 1.08 0.99

[Thufir]

On 7/2/05, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0501.nospam(a)arcor.de&gt; wrote:
..

LeafNode
<http://www.leafnode.org/>

>  > Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm
>  > There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is
>  > outdated)
>
>  Not just that. It's without maintainer, as its last packager cannot
>  be reached anymore. This increases the possibility that leafnode will
>  be removed from Fedora Extras, if nobody wants to update it.
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages
>
>  --
>  Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)users.sf.net&gt; 
..

I just yummed (is that a word?) leafnode.  I use pine for usenet
(newsgroups) but am frustrated with slow-loading groups.  Is this the
right tool?  There's also diablo, I think...


-Thufir