Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > I am curious to know what you think about an application called newsx. > The URL's for help and documentation seem to be unavailable, and I'm > not sure it is still being supported. What role could it play in > working with newsgroups? > Hi, I'm not really sure. I might have looked at it when I was trying to set up news about a year ago but it doesn't ring a bell. I think it's more complicated because it requires a full news server such as inn which is intended for large sites. leafnode is for small sites as the name implies. What I finally ended up doing is setting up suck and ditching any local news server. Tin doesn't need a local news server and that's what I use to read. Since articles are almost always plain text, you could just use less if you want, especially for moderated groups. Since I'm not on dial-up, I can't say if newsx or suck are any faster. I almost never post and my local setup obviously wouldn't allow posting anyway because I don't run an actual news server. If one can get leafnode working, I would think that would be easier than trying to set up a full news server like inn or inn2. Then again, Usenet is starting to die like most text-based media so perhaps it doesn't matter. One thing I like about suck is that I can either pull articles manually or set up a cron job. Leafnode does that but will delete articles in groups that aren't read often. My idea here is more to archive them than to actually read them, so I don't want articles disappearing from my local server. I literally have archives of sci.space.news going back to 2003 this way which I doubt that I would have otherwise.
