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Subject: 
Re: New feature for messages?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:54:14 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmIHATESPAM.org
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote:
It works better because there's only one server, which honors canceling.

Right. Except that some people at least use a sucking news feed.

BTW, while talking about NNTP servers: I gave up trying to read directly
off the LUGNET NNTP server with Gnus, and so converted to Leafnode.  Now
I use Leafnode to actually grab the articles off the server and upload
the articles I post, while I use Gnus as the user interface to Leafnode.
So far it appears to work fine.

Right, like that. :) You could choose to not respect cancels, so it's not
perfect.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                     --->               http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux             --->                http://linux.bu.edu/



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(...) It works better because there's only one server, which honors canceling. But on the other hand, with that many people reading LUGNET off the mail interface, I'd say canceling works _worse_ than on USENET. You can't cancel a message which has (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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