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Wednesday January 09, 2002
03:53 PM
NNTP servers
And then I've just installed slrn+slrnpull on my home PC.
This rocks, except one thing : NNTP servers aren't always perfect. For example, the server I've currently access to seems to loose some posts (e.g. posts from Randal). I can read them on another server, read-only for me. So what's the solution ?
- Do nothing and decide it's not important
- Install INN (ughh)
- Patch slrnpull to allow to retrieve posts from several news servers (boring, but potentially fun)
- Write my own newsspool / NNTP proxy, in Perl of course, and make slrn use that. (funnier.)
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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