> This may be a bit off-topic, so bear with me. > > nntpcache sounds like a good solution for many users, but (I guess) > assumes live access to the Internet to work correctly. Quite correct. > There are many of us who have dial-in accounts to a local ISP and thus > reading news from the ISP's newsserver can be costly (due to telephone > charges) and inconvenient because the link is not always available. > > I currently use a few scripts to do a daily "suck" on the ISP's > newsserver, posting a *small* group (900 articles/20 groups) of specific > newsgroups to my local INN server. These scripts (or the ones I use at > least) have limited functionality and quite easily can lose articles. > > The functionality is similar to nntpcache, with the exception of a > connection to remote servers being at specific times. Could nntpcache be > setup to retrieve requested groups and/or send new articles at specific > times (ie when the ip link is up) thus simplifying the process of > following specific groups? > > I would be interested in knowing if this would require trivial changes > as I think there could be a lot of interest from many small users. It's quite non-trivial. What you're asking for is an offline reader, and there are many of these already available for a variety of different platforms. Quite beyond the call of nntpcache. > Simon J Mudd > Madrid, SPAIN -- Luke Bowker, puke@suburbia.net, puke@deakin.edu.au Suburbia Public Access Network Site Sysadmin "Don't try to understand. Knowing you, I'm probably wrong" - D. Mustaine
