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Re: offline news reader



Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> writes:

> Ian Balchin <inksi@imaginet.co.za> writes:
> 
> 
> >
> > If I am offline then I need to spool the news, and slrn with
> > slrnpull looks like a likely choice.
> 
> If you don't want Gnus and (X)Emacs, then the above is a good choice - or
> slrn with leafnode works well.  Leafnode is designed for a small set-up
> and certainly works well enough here. It downloads what you need and no
> more.  IIRC the Debian set-up for leafnode takes you through the
> necessary steps very nicely, though it also has one of the easier config
> files to play with.  Slrn is very good and fast too.
> 
> But Gnus is amazing!!

How does Gnus replace leafnode?  I currently have a small inn spool so
I can read offline, so could that also be replace with just Gnus?  Do
you have any suggestions on how to set that up, and where to read?

Thanks.
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org



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