newsreading with debian lenny

[John covici]

Newsx is a program to pull in newsgroups to your own spool and read
the articles locally.  You need inn to use it, but I find it
convenient.

on Tuesday 12/23/2008 Chuck Hallenbeck(chuckh at ftml.net) 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?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Chuck
 > 
 > 
 > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:56:01AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
 > > Alex Snow wrote:
 > >> If he's running leafnode he'd want to point his newsreader to  
 > >> localhost.
 > >> I'm not sure why he'd bother use leafnode, I always just used rtin and  
 > >> set it to use my ISP's newsserver.
 > >>   
 > >
 > > Because maybe his ISP news server is slow and crappy like most are.   
 > > Unless you pay for something like Supernews, it makes more sense to  
 > > locally archive groups that you want to read.  I have extensive archives  
 > > of some newsgroups that would be impossible with any ISP news server  
 > > that I've used.  Even with a good news server, it seems common to have  
 > > dropped articles.  I don't mean spam, I mean good articles that get  
 > > dropped for no reason.  It's very hard to follow a discussion with 1/3  
 > > of the conversation missing.  No, I'm not pushing for Supernews,  
 > > actually there are better pay news services out there.  I only mention  
 > > them because they're cheap and offer good text archives.  I think it's  
 > > $5 or $6 per month.  Granted that isn't free, but it's better than the  
 > > local ISP news server.
 > >
 > > In cases of readers other than tin, especially with very old readers  
 > > like slrn, they expect you to run a local news server, thus leafnode is  
 > > a good option.  Usenet, like other aspects of the Internet, goes back a  
 > > very long time, long before broadband and the days when anyone could  
 > > pull their own small news feed.
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