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From: Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Adding something like IWANT to innd?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 18:56:57 -0600
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 09:13:30 +0100
Julien =C3=89LIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi Nigel,
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> >> I think that INN also has something that's similar, though I've
> >> never used it. =20
> >=20
> > Maybe suck will do what I want, I'll look into it. =20
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> INN comes with a program named pullnews to achieve what you want.
> See https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/pullnews.html
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> In the pullnews.marks config file:
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>      news.server.com
>          news.software.nntp
>          news.admin.peering 0 -100
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> will download all the articles in news.software.nntp, and the last
> 100 articles in news.admin.peering from server news.server.com.
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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?=20


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