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   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:49:30 +0100, "Carlos E.R."   
    wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   That works -- except with the default configuration, you   
   can't take part in "banter" threads, where replies are a few   
   minutes apart.   
      
   But...hmm.  There shouldn't be any reason why the cronjob   
   can't fire off (say) every 5 minutes to top off fresh news...though,   
   that might be wasteful of resources when you're not reading.   
      
   (I seem to remember that leafnode has a killfile function -- or   
   does it?)   
      
   In any event, once I have the bugs ironed out of the newsgroup   
   tree browser, I'll put this on my github for anyone who wants   
   a perl-based newsreader.  (Development stagnated for a few weeks.)   
      
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