> Thanks to all who answered my query about possible off-line use of nntpcache. > > I have been up until now using suck with INN. > Normally this works fine. > > However suck has a few shortcomings: > (1) If the remote newsserver is reconfigured and the low/high water mark > number change, suck gets totally confused. And so does any newsreader I've ever come across. NNTPCache would get confused to a certain extent too. It's one of those things that isn't supposed to change. > (2) adding a newsgroup requires adding it to suck and INN separately If you suck in control you can probably feed the newgroup message to INN automagically, or you can probably write a script to add to both suck and INN for you. I agree it's a bit ugly though. > (3) suck doesn't store a global message-id list, or check INN for headers > already accepted. Normally this doesn't matter, but if the configuration > files get messed up can lead to duplicate petitions from the remote server.
