Re: Adding something like IWANT to innd?

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 09:13:30 +0100
Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

Hi Nigel,
 

I think that INN also has something that's similar, though I've
never used it. 

 
Maybe suck will do what I want, I'll look into it. 

 
INN comes with a program named pullnews to achieve what you want.
See https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/pullnews.html
 
In the pullnews.marks config file:
 
     news.server.com
         news.software.nntp
         news.admin.peering 0 -100
 
will download all the articles in news.software.nntp, and the last
100 articles in news.admin.peering from server news.server.com.
 

The problem is, from what I can tell, both suck and pullnews require
the newsserver to have me setup to issue a "MODE READER" command. It's
not possible to do it via transit mode. Am I right?

That means I have to bother every news admin to make a config change
just for me to accomplish this.

Also, if I end up pulling articles for a couple that is already
populated and those articles are earlier then the ones that currently
exist, do I need to rebuild the history file? Would I need to for empty
groups?


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