• Re: How to change the Subject of a Usenet article

    From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Rich on Sun Sep 10 08:24:26 2023
    XPost: news.software.readers

    [ Dropped comp.lang.c , added news.software.readers ]

    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.

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  • From issdr@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Sun Sep 10 11:04:02 2023
    XPost: news.software.readers

    Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

    [ Dropped comp.lang.c , added news.software.readers ]

    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.

    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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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Sun Sep 10 10:19:15 2023
    XPost: news.software.readers

    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

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  • From De ongekruisigde@21:1/5 to no@thanks.net on Sun Sep 10 15:49:59 2023
    XPost: news.software.readers

    On 2023-09-10, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
    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

    I downloaded the source and compiled it myself. For Termux (Linux under Android; minor edits required but if it works there...)

    GitHub - jedsoft/slrn: A multi-platform Usenet client https://github.com/jedsoft/slrn

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  • From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 11 07:46:00 2023
    XPost: news.software.readers

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    On 2023-09-10, candycanearter07 wrote:
    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 [...]
    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

    Are you using the version in your distro's repository, or getting it
    elsewhere?


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  • From Julieta Shem@21:1/5 to issdr on Sun Dec 3 13:11:28 2023
    XPost: news.software.readers

    issdr <p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it> writes:

    [...]

    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

    I tried noffle. Noffle is as great as leafnode, but I moved away from
    noffle because messages were stored in a GDBM while leafnode stores them
    on a directory.

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