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From: George Musk <grgmusk@skiff.com>
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader,news.software.misc
Subject: Re: Modern SOUP software?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 09:38:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 19:31:21 -0000 (UTC), George Musk wrote:

> Something like https://github.com/OS2World/APP-INTERNET-uqwk It was last

Well, I got to trying to use it.
uqwk from the link above has some symbol at the end of most .c .h files 
which would cause a compiler error, but would compile if it is edited out.
Maybe result of moving files around.

It needs environment variable NNTPSERVER set and a .newsrc file, where 
it's needed to add a colon after newsgroup name to mark it subscribed.
Nothing about that in uqwk man. Of course I only used Outlook and Pan for 
news, so it was all new to me.
Then it's something like uqwk -m +n +L to make SOUP packet.

First I did it in OpenBSD just because, it would do segmentation fault.
Then in Linux and it progressed to the state of creating SOUP packet 
(files were in home dir...) and crashed with some error (could be because 
of my particular Linux which is Kicksecure) so I only got some .MSG file 
and empty AREAS file, not enough for MultiMail to show stuff.

MultiMail on the other hand seems to work fine with both systems.