On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 06:57:51PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > What I want now, however, is to see the contents of usenet messages > that have already been downloaded -- years ago. In other words, I'd > like to use the facilities that are already baked into every decent > usenet reader to process a message that's already on my hard drive. > (for example, one I've downloaded way back in 2004). But I don't want > the everything else that makes that part of a huge, full-function > usenet eader. > > But all the readers I've investigated seem willing to handle only > messages they download themselves or have stored within their own > on-disk data structures. There seems to be no mechanism for taking a > usenet message obtained from elsewhere. >
What you want is a (local) usenet server. Usenet is like e-mail with a clear division of labour between server and client. I can't advise about which server to use, it's been a long time I used one. Gyelt -- _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
