In comp.misc candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
On 9/9/23 03:57, Sn!pe wrote:
This is not to say that T'Bird is no good as a Newsreader, but there are >> better ones.
It's hard to find one for Linux that I can find in the aur and also has offline reading mode. Pan doesn't have any option to download all unread messages from what I know.
From the Linux perspective, that is out of scope for a newsreader.
Offline read/write mode is done with, as one option, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafnode. Then you still use whatever newsreader you like, but can do so offline as well.
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2023 21:28:11 -0000 (UTC)
Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
In comp.misc candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
On 9/9/23 03:57, Sn!pe wrote:
This is not to say that T'Bird is no good as a Newsreader, but there are >> >> better ones.
It's hard to find one for Linux that I can find in the aur and also has
offline reading mode. Pan doesn't have any option to download all unread >> > messages from what I know.
From the Linux perspective, that is out of scope for a newsreader.
Offline read/write mode is done with, as one option,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafnode. Then you still use whatever
newsreader you like, but can do so offline as well.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for a newsreader to have both a
"batch mode" and an interactive mode. For example one might want to go for
a trip and still set their newsreader to download all new messages in their favorite groups once per day.
slrn claims to offer such capabilities but I don't use it so I can't speak about details. It also seems to be easy to compile from source (very few dependencies) which is a plus in my book because one can make modifications. But slrn also supports an extension language called S-lang so I'm guessing you can customise it a lot. Details are under http://slrn.info/ .
It should also be easy to write a Python script or Perl script to download all new messages from some groups. But one must still use a newsreader which supports the functionality to read messages from the local filesystem as opposed to connect to a server and also the messages must be saved in a format the newsreader can understand.
slrn claims to offer such capabilities but I don't use it so I can't speak about details. It also seems to be easy to compile from source (very few dependencies) which is a plus in my book because one can make modifications. But slrn also supports an extension language called S-lang so I'm guessing you can customise it a lot. Details are under http://slrn.info/ .
On 9/10/23 03:24, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
slrn claims to offer such capabilities but I don't use it so I can't speak >> about details. It also seems to be easy to compile from source (very few
dependencies) which is a plus in my book because one can make modifications. >> But slrn also supports an extension language called S-lang so I'm
guessing you can customise it a lot. Details are under http://slrn.info/ .
slrn errors when I tried to install it.
bytecode stream in file ‘/usr/lib/uudeview/fptools.o’ generated with LTO version 12.0 instead of the expected 13.0
On 9/10/23 03:24, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
slrn claims to offer such capabilities but I don't use it so I can'tslrn errors when I tried to install it.
speak about details [...]
bytecode stream in file ‘/usr/lib/uudeview/fptools.o’ generated with LTO version 12.0 instead of the expected 13.0
pan and sylpheed grant offline reading from what i recall. slrn has got slrnpull, which is great for offline reading/posting (used it with gnus
in place of its native agent in the ol' days). leafnode2 is a good alternative, not overshooting, as it's light and maintenance free once porperly set up. i've heard of noffle, never tried tho
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