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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-17 05:42, vallor wrote:   
   > At Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:57:02 -0500, CrudeSausage  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-15 10:41 p.m., vallor wrote:   
   >>> At Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:16:03 -0600, chrisv    
   >>> wrote:   
      
      
   >>> My experiment with this was to write a newsreader with   
   >>> the help of ChatGPT, in Tk/perl.  It works.   
   >>   
   >> Is it better than Pan?   
   >   
   > Right now, Pan is better, I'd say.   
   >   
   > But newscamel has one feature that I don't think many newsreaders have,   
   > which is recording "read" (red) articles by Message-ID.   
   >   
   > That way, no matter which news server you switch to,   
   > it will accurately indicate read articles.   
   >   
   > I'm thinking maybe I should go back to Pan, and add that feature.   
   > Issue there is I'm not as strong with C++ as I am with C or perl.   
      
   There is a way in Linux to do that with any reader.   
      
   I use "leafnode", an nntp proxy server. It is it who connects to the   
   upstream news servers, one or several. But your client only connects to   
   the local leafnode.   
      
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