Re: leafnode and Gnus

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

> Any particular reason not to use NNTP?

Speed, pure speed.  my first idea was to use nntp, but the Gnus manual
 says that using a local spool is recommended for speed reasons.  Nntp
works well, though.  I guess I' just have to switch.

> Leafnode's nearest equivalent to an active file is
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo, but it's not stored in the same
> format as an active file so I'd be surprised if Gnus didn't barf on it.
> 
> You should probably use NNTP to read news - Leafnode isn't intended to
> support anything else.

I didn't know that - I would have thought that the directory
structures and file formats are somewhat generic for most news
servers.  Oh silly me.

Thanks anyways.

Cheers -- Stephan
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Stephan Engelke                                    engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de
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