Re: [leafnode-list] leafnode-2.0

[Greg Weeks <gweeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, David Given wrote:

> >> 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?

I experimented with this a few months ago. I actually ran a filter on
out.going that pulled out the local stuff. There are a couple of other
areas that needed work to do local spools. The fetching of groups needs to
be changed to sort the local groups into groupinfo and fetchnews needs to
be able to NOT try to fetch for local groups. I don't remember what else I
bumped into, but I didn't have any time to write code anyway. I was
wanting to do a mailing list gateway at the time. I no longer have the
incentive now.

Greg Weeks
-- 
http://durendal.tzo.com/greg/



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