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   From: Chris Game    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Slrn   
   Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:22:47 -0000   
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   On 2007-02-20, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:   
   > * Chris Game wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >> On 2007-02-19, Mateus Denigris  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> On 2007-02-19, SINNER spake thusly:   
   >>>> * Chris Game wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>>>> I presume you really mean it's the best of a bad lot. There are many    
   >>>>> slrn shortcomings and I'd point  you to some threads about that on    
   >>>>> here, but as slrn doesn't cache headers let alone bodies it's a bit    
   >>>>> difficult!   
   >   
   >>>> slrnpull   
   >   
   >>> Leafnode, as well.   
   >   
   >> slrn does a search on local servers? How's that?   
   >   
   > What do you mean hows that? Its called XPAT.   
      
   I mean "How does that help". Does having slrnpull or leafnode add    
   anything to the functionality I get from the news server at my ISP? I    
   can already expand threads to include all previous posts, but short    
   of resetting my newsrc and downloading the last three hundred    
   headers for searching, I don't see how to do what I was referring to    
   above, i.e. find a previous thread by subject or content. Local    
   caching of headers and bodies would enable the header list to be    
   broadened to include those if necessary, just as we could on    
   Gravity, Thunderbird and goodness knows what else.   
      
   Anyhow, the OP on this thread was telling us all how slrn was the    
   greatest thing since blended Frappuccino, and I was merely pointing    
   out - with examples - that this was pure bollocks. It maybe good,    
   but it's not perfect!   
      
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   Chris Game   
      
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