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Re: problems with innxmit
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:14:00 GMT
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Ian Smith wrote:
> Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. You see, I pay for phone calls,
> so I don't want to be dialled-up to the internet the whole time I'm
> meandering around lugnet reading messages. My machine runs a server, so it
> connects to the internet, pulls all the messages in all the groups I'm
> interested in, then hangs up. It then serves messages to my reader and
> accepts posts from me locally, and some time later (when the phone charges
> are at their cheapest, as it happens) dials up again and chucks out the
> messages to their various targets.
why not just work in SMTP then? subscribe to all the groups, set up procmail (if you have it) or other mail filters to drop the messages in the right folders, and reply via smtp... it'll be queued and you can flush the queue whenever you're connected?
:)
Dan
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| (...) The problem with this approach is that cancels are not honored. If a person posts a message, and then regrets and cancels it, it will still be posted to all the SMTP subscribers. A new, corrected version of the same article will then be (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. You see, I pay for phone calls, so I don't want to be dialled-up to the internet the whole time I'm meandering around lugnet reading messages. My machine runs a server, so it connects to the internet, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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