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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-18 15:27, vallor wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   In that case, I call   
      
      sudo -u news /usr/sbin/fetchnews -v   
      
   manually.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   You could use a systemd timer, and enable/disable it when needed :-)   
      
   Or have a cronjob that checks a flag file. I have this.   
      
      
   >   
   > (I seem to remember that leafnode has a killfile function -- or   
   > does it?)   
      
   killfile? Dunno :-?   
      
   >   
   > 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.)   
   >   
      
   :-)   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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