On 2008-02-07, Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE@CAPpetezilla.ITALSco.uk> wrote:
> Chaps,
>
> currently use leafnode-2. What do other people use for news servers? Like
> using knode plus leafnode-2 - prefer carring out the kill filing on the
> server. Thing is, want to go some killfilling that is beyond what the
> current snapshot of leafnode-2 offers and both that and leafnode don't seem
> to be undergoing much develment.
>
> Could likely do what I want in INN - stopped using that years back when I
> found I could not get suck to work for some unknown reason - and it was
> simply too much trouble to configure - OK if you play with it weekly as a
> news admin but too much to forget if you only tinker with the config once a
> year.
>
> Pete
>
>

With a local newspool, which slrnpull and leafnode provide, you aren't limited
to what either your newsreader or local server can do. You can perform any
kind of filtering on the contents of the newspool, before opening it in your
newsreader, with shell scripts and other external utilities.

For instance: I have a script that deletes all responses to killed posts
from my newspool before slrn comes up.

You'll never find a pre-packaged app that will do everything you want.
They are all written by people to do what _they_ want.

Tom


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