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Hi all,

I'm a newbie to Linux using Caldera's OpenLinux and LG desktop.
Ecstatically happy with the setup and glad to be finally running Linux
on a production machine!

Curious to know if there is a offline news reader for Linux like WinVN
or Newsbot for Linux.  Tried XRN, but it has no offline reading
capability (and it's dog slow).  Using Netscape Communicator 4.04 which
is supposed to have this ability, but I can't find it even though the
online help says it's there.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Don

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Quote:> Curious to know if there is a offline news reader for Linux like WinVN
> or Newsbot for Linux.  Tried XRN, but it has no offline reading
> capability (and it's dog slow).  Using Netscape Communicator 4.04 which
> is supposed to have this ability, but I can't find it even though the
> online help says it's there.

http://www.troll.no, if I recall right.

There's probably an RPM on redhat's site, somewhere.

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|> Curious to know if there is a offline news reader for Linux like WinVN
|> or Newsbot for Linux.  Tried XRN, but it has no offline reading
|> capability

Someone else has already addressed this by pointing out that the
easiest way to do Offline News reading in Linux is to make your machine
into an NNTP server, which will then allow you to use any News reader.

|> (and it's dog slow).

If XRN is slow for you, then either (a) using an old version of XRN or
(b) you've got it configured wrong.  If, for example, you are using XRN
over a SLIP connection, you absolutely have to change the default
configuration to make it behave well.

Incidentally, the current beta release of XRN will (I hope) become the
next production release some time in the next month.  It has many new
features, including article threading.  See
<http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html>.

Quote:>I'm a newbie to Linux using Caldera's OpenLinux and LG desktop.
>Ecstatically happy with the setup and glad to be finally running Linux
>on a production machine!

Quote:>Curious to know if there is a offline news reader for Linux like WinVN
>or Newsbot for Linux.  Tried XRN, but it has no offline reading
>capability (and it's dog slow).  Using Netscape Communicator 4.04 which
>is supposed to have this ability, but I can't find it even though the
>online help says it's there.

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Quote:>> Donald Stidwell writes:
> Curious to know if there is a offline news reader for Linux like
> WinVN or Newsbot for Linux.  Tried XRN, but it has no offline reading
> capability (and it's dog slow).

       Leafnode  is  a  USENET  package intended for small sites,
       where there are few users and little disk space, but where
       a large number of groups is desired.
       The  design  of  leafnode is intended to self-repair after
       problems, and to require no manual maintenance.
       The leafnode program itself is the NNTP server.  It is run
       from /etc/inetd.conf when someone wants to read news.  The
       other parts of the package, fetch and texpire, are respon-
       sible  for  fetching new news from another server, and for
       deleting old news.

There are other options like the ubiquitous inn, but leafnode should
be fine.

Quote:> Using Netscape Communicator 4.04 which is supposed to have this
> ability, but I can't find it even though the online help says it's
> there. Any suggestions?

However, Gnus is *the* best mail and newsreader there is for Linux. It's
slow, and XEmacs is a memory hog, but I can do just about everything you
could wish for except IMAP: inline MIME, PGP, supercite, threading,
scoring, washing... Did I say that I like Gnus?

Cheers,
Robin

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I know you got quite a number of good articles about various alternatives to
read news offline.  I would like to suggest that you check out a program
called News Peruser.  This program provides offline upload, download,
mail fetch and receive, etc.  It runs as a number of either command line
components one could use on a routine basis or as part of GUI portion of
the program.  I routinely grab a number of headers from a few groups, go
offline and compose answers or email, queue them up, and then return
online to send them. You can automate the whole process also and have
your system do the work instead if you wish.

You can search on www.yahoo.com or altavista for the web page that you
can get an idea from about the program's abilities.

I also use slrn but have found that News Peruser provides a nice
interface that is rather fun to learn.

--Michael Perry--

Greetz,

Joop
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   - Select your prefered newsgroup and select the headers you are
intrested in .
   - Use            file message -> Some Mail folder .
   - Disconnect .
   - Read your mail (usenet) folder , mails .
   - Write your mails or reply's and use File -> Send Later ( That is
what i am doing now ) .

   - Next time you connect you can Use file -> Send Unsent Messages .
And your messages are send .

  To do this you only have to use a few clicks instead of twisting your
fingers around like a monkey to
   type some obscure commands as you have to do in some other linux news
readers .
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Then you simply point all your news browsers - such as netscape at
"localhost" (which should be defined as 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts).

Even better - if you have other machines running Windup9to5 on your
local net - they can then use your machine as their news server also -
and read news without a connection to your ISP being up.

Owen
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: Hi-

: I know you got quite a number of good articles about various alternatives to
: read news offline.  I would like to suggest that you check out a program
: called News Peruser.  This program provides offline upload, download,

I wouldn't trust a newsreader that includes all the headers in a followup
posting. If it can't even do that right, what other bugs could it have?

It's all up to the user...

/Michael
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I am using leafnode (see Issue #9 of Linux Gazette) and EMACS gnus as
my newsreader.  This is a very workable system.  leafnode has a few
insignificant problems, but on the whole, I like it.  Both work right
out of the box and leafnode is SMALL!!

: Hi-
: I know you got quite a number of good articles about various alternatives to
: read news offline.  I would like to suggest that you check out a program
: called News Peruser.  This program provides offline upload, download,

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