Re: [leafnode-list] Newbie questions - 1

[Steve Mansfield <syntax@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday 26 August 2003 18:24, you wrote:
| Steve Mansfield <syntax@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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| >
| > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 15:10, you wrote:
| > | I'm not familiar with Wanadoo, but check the greeting line their server
| > | gives you. 200 means you can post, 201 means you cannot.
| >
| > How would I see this? Is it logged somewhere?
|
| You can set debugmode=1 and then look into your news log (refer to
| TROUBLESHOOTING in README to find out how your /etc/syslog.conf needs to
| be set up).

Well, the good news is, I seem to have got it working! The bad news is, I'm 
not sure which of the many changes I made actually achieved the result, but 
I'm back to a fairly simple configuration in the CONFIG file, so maybe I'd 
done something stupid earlier. Anyway, thanks for the help.

And while I'm here, I don't know if you're interested in *why* people use your 
software, but here's my story (as briefly as possible). I have a small 
network (5 machines) sharing an ISDN router. This is convenient but 
expensive. I used 40tude Dialog on WinXP (and my wife still does) which is 
excellent at handling messages offline. Now I've switched to Linux, I tried a 
number of news clients and was happily using Pan until I upgraded and it 
started acting weird (its new scoring system seems a tad unreliable). I tried 
Mozilla Thunderbird and like it enormously - but, even though I tell it to 
download messages for offline reading, every time I selected a newsgroup it 
would cause the router to dial-up. Very irritating. With Leafnode, I 
eliminate this problem - so your software is going to save me money. Thanks.

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