🚀 go-pugleaf

In news.admin.misc article <1994Jan12.160013.2112@cs.brown.edu>, md@maxcy2.maxcy.brown.edu (Michael P. Deignan) wrote:
:In article <1994Jan11.184435.23684@orbital.demon.co.uk>, 
:	steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch) writes:
:
:|> Facilities for doing this are also provided in slurp
:
:The only problem I had with SLURP was that it requires you to have
:CNEWS or another local news processing package installed locally.
:Since the site that I developed this software for doesn't run any
:local news software, but instead all locally-read news is done via
:NNTP newsreaders, SLURP didn't appear feasible, so instead I
:wrote the NNTP_POLL hack, which is similar to a newsreader
:working in "batch" mode to "read" new articles to a series of
:files, then batch those files for xfer via UUCP, or whatever
:else you hack the polling script to do.
:
:I'm using this hack to feed a half-dozen sites, so it serves
:the purpose.

Check again, slurp certainly runs over NNTP.  I've run it on half a dozen
machines and three different operating systems, one without even a
newsreader on the machine.  No news transport software is required.

I do have some minor complaints, but it works equally as well as a program I
wrote years ago to provide a similar function.

... Joe

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Joe Greco - Systems Administrator			      jgreco@ns.sol.net
Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI			   414/342-4847