While diagnosing a problem in one of Larry Wall's other projects
(threaded rn), I came to realize that having the full force of Perl to
run killfiles would be nice. Before I embark on such a project, I was wondering if there's prior art I could steal from.
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
While diagnosing a problem in one of Larry Wall's other projects
(threaded rn), I came to realize that having the full force of Perl to
run killfiles would be nice.
Have you thought of storing the news messages in local dirs (like leafnode) and using fdm?
Have you thought of storing the news messages in local dirs (like leafnode) >> and using fdm?
I read news from Panix, where I have a Unix shell account with a disk
quota and a local nntp server that can verify who I am with identd
protocol instead of passwords. Leafnode adds a lot of complexity for me:
this is a shared (multiuser) server where I don't have root.
I am not familiar with trn, but I guess you just wanted to play with
the cached NNTP overview files, so you can filter based on subject/author/references (but you cannot filter on full text).
Even with a limited account in a shell provider having a personalized
news spool and filtering with fdm is doable:
That way you have much more fine grain control over filtering/archiving
and you are not tied to a single newsreader.
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