Oscar Fowler wrote:
>
> I'm wondering how many of you are accessing these groups/messages via a news
> reader (NNTP) as opposed to just receiving individual emails or digests. If
> you're using NNTP: is news.palmos.com incredibly slow for you to access? If
> not, what news reader are you using?
>
> I find that accessing news.palmos.com very frustrating, as the connection is
> always incredibly slow (just getting an updated article list takes forever)
> and I'm constantly disconnected from the server, even if I use "keep alive"
> packets every couple of minutes. I don't have these problems with any of the
> other news servers I access, and I access a good number of others.
>
> -Oscar
It is rather hard to believe that it's been like this for so long ('n'
years!). But there it is.
For about a year I had a Linux box on the local LAN that mirrored these
groups. It was wonderful! But then some (more) bad messages or something
got into the list and no Linux news software we tried was able to work
properly.
If anyone has such a setup going, please let me know. I'd like to get
back to monitoring these groups more than once a week or two. :)
That said, I run a Perl script once or twice a day that sucks down all
recent articles to a Unix/Netscape type email file. I tweaked the script
to handle all the bad messages in the database. The email file is easy
to search inside a text editor.
Alex
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