🚀 go-pugleaf

russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:

> rick@ricksys.lonestar.org (Richard McCombs) writes:
> 
>>> uucp+rnews:
>> How you could get rnews to work with only one directory?
> 
> just hacking at it - unpack all the news files that WOULDN'T have gone
> straight into junk into one big directory, probably keeping an index
> file somewhere.  (as long as you don't have to parse that feeds file,
> doing rnews is easy)

I read junk. (if I get anything there.)
> 
>>> uucp+rnews:
>>
>> I'd say you need to be a medium-grade hacker to get waffle up and
>> running. I got it to work with little or no help.
> 
> for the case where the user has:
>   one place feeding them
>   no places they're feeding
>   one (or many, really) phone numbers to call to their feed
> 
> this wouldn't be a big deal, would it?  to set up a custom waffle system,
> that you could plug and play (answer these twelve questions: type of deal)

Well, if it was plug and play maybe.
It would have to be congiruable from menus, and make no assumtions about
the person's knowledge of Usenet etc.

I would probably never use it, I'd loose the flexability.
For instance right now I receive most of my news from one host and feed
what I post to another one because it seems to get lost the other way.

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