Re: [leafnode-list] leafnode-2.0

["David Given" <dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> What's rnews? Is it a UUCP-only system?
>
>rnews is a program which sorts articles into the spool. It is absolutely
>necessary for use with UUCP because you retrieve the articles not via
>fetchnews, but in so-called "batches" which are concatenated articles
>with some special headers inbetween. However, rnews can in principle
>also be used to sort articles into the spool which have been retrieved
>with suck, newsx or any other client.

Perhaps this would make local groups possible?

You could configure leafnode so that any messages posted to a newsgroup marked as local wouldn't go into out.going, but would be passed immediately to rnews and sorted into the spool. This should work, shouldn't it?


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