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What nntp client allows multiple news servers to be enabled & disabled?
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Danny D
May 15, 2013, 4:55:55 PM5/15/13
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I love Pan 0.135 (Centos) but I'm finding that some of the free
newsservers are mighty flaky - so - I find myself removing servers and
putting them back on when they come back online to be a pain.
http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/13044456/img/13044456.png
With Pan 0.135 on Linux, the only choice is to delete a server
(you can't just 'disable' it).
With Pan, you can also set the news server to be a "secondary server" -
but that doesn't really seem to accomplish anything useful (as far as I
can tell).
Given that some servers are flaky, it seems that any nntp client that
allows multiple news servers should simply have an enable/disable
checkbox.
That way, instead of having to *delete* the news server, one could simply
*disable* it temporarily (until the server goes back online).
My question:
Q: What's a good (linux) nntp client that can enable/disable news servers?
newsservers are mighty flaky - so - I find myself removing servers and
putting them back on when they come back online to be a pain.
http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/13044456/img/13044456.png
With Pan 0.135 on Linux, the only choice is to delete a server
(you can't just 'disable' it).
With Pan, you can also set the news server to be a "secondary server" -
but that doesn't really seem to accomplish anything useful (as far as I
can tell).
Given that some servers are flaky, it seems that any nntp client that
allows multiple news servers should simply have an enable/disable
checkbox.
That way, instead of having to *delete* the news server, one could simply
*disable* it temporarily (until the server goes back online).
My question:
Q: What's a good (linux) nntp client that can enable/disable news servers?
Ted S.
May 15, 2013, 9:31:44 PM5/15/13
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On Wed, 15 May 2013 20:55:55 +0000 (UTC), Danny D wrote:
> My question:
> Q: What's a good (linux) nntp client that can enable/disable news servers?
slrnpull? I don't use Linux, but I *think* you can use slrnpull as a
> My question:
> Q: What's a good (linux) nntp client that can enable/disable news servers?
localhost and connect the reader of your choice to it, not just slrn.
Or would that be leafnode?
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Danny D
May 16, 2013, 12:36:02 AM5/16/13
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On Wed, 15 May 2013 21:31:44 -0400, Ted S. wrote:
> slrnpull? leafnode?
Thanks.
I'll have to look them up as I've never heard of them.
> slrnpull? leafnode?
Thanks.
I'll have to look them up as I've never heard of them.
John F. Morse
May 16, 2013, 1:05:58 AM5/16/13
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rejected the Truth, by what means do they discern a lie?
Danny D
May 16, 2013, 3:39:34 AM5/16/13
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On Thu, 16 May 2013 00:05:58 -0500, John F. Morse wrote:
>> Q: What's a good (linux) nntp client that can enable/disable news
>> servers?
> Pan can do it. Set your Connection Limit to zero.
Now that's clever!
>> Q: What's a good (linux) nntp client that can enable/disable news
>> servers?
> Pan can do it. Set your Connection Limit to zero.
tlvp
May 17, 2013, 10:03:51 PM5/17/13
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On Thu, 16 May 2013 07:39:34 +0000 (UTC), Danny D thanked the Morse:
>> Pan can do it. Set your Connection Limit to zero.
>
> Now that's clever!
You beat me to it, but you're right: it really is :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp
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>> Pan can do it. Set your Connection Limit to zero.
>
> Now that's clever!
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