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   From: Mateus Denigris    
   Subject: Re: Slrn   
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   Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:28:12 GMT   
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   On 2007-02-20, Chris Game spake thusly:   
   > On 2007-02-20, Hadron  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> 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    
   >>   
   >> You asked how it does that on local servers. leafnode acts as an an nntp   
   >> server. It in itself has cached articles. Fast, efficient, offline news   
   reading.   
   >>   
   > How is that different to my ISP's news server? That's fast enough,    
   > surely? 'local' by itself, seems to have nothing to do with it.   
      
   Your ISP controls your ISP's news server. With Leafnode, you are essentially   
   creating your own ISP Newserver. Leafnode will cache articles and newsgroups   
   from any source(s) you specify, and your news reader then accesses Leafnode    
   as an NNTP server. As far as your reader knows, it *is* your ISP's newserver.   
   Leafnode can be configured as a cron job that retrieves messages and headers   
   from servers at a given time that is convienient for you, without your having   
   to do a thing, and it will do so from as many or as few servers as you want,   
   and as many or as few messages as you want. It is most decidedly _much_ faster   
   than directly accessing the ISP NNTP server remotely. Posting is also much   
   more efficient as it is done as configured, and messages may be qued as   
   desired.   
      
   It's alot of fun being your own ISP. Next class we will discuss the joys of   
   SMTP ;-)   
      
   regards,   
      
   Mateus   
      
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