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Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is outdated) and a simplified configuration file (the distributed config seems spectacularly disorganized).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.
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Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is outdated)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
On 7/2/05, Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0501.nospam@arcor.de 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Anyway (FWIW): http://www.tqmcube.com/leafnode.htm There are links to the RPM I compiled (the Fedora Extras RPM is outdated)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@users.sf.net
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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