Re: Why aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages?
Dan Jacobson writes:
> Why aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages?
File a bug.
> OK, I suppose I will manually have to disconnect leafnode from the NNTP
> port and connect noffle.
Why not just shut down or remove the one you aren't using?
> I still haven't met an offline reader...
Leafnode and noffle aren't readers. They are news servers.
> ...that can handle the simple idea that I want to post articles to a
> different server than where I read them.
The "server where you read them" is your local server: the thing you
persist in calling an "offline reader". Leafnode is intended to be a
lightweight, easily configured news server. Part of the price of this is
reduced flexibility.
> ...can't deal with getting group A from server X and group B from server
> Y if both A and B exist on both X and Y.
Cnews and INN certainly can.
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John Hasler
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