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>In creating a Yarn-like tool for *nix, it would seem
>advantageous to start with an existing news server for the
>storage and transport and build on that.
>
>The reason for using SOUP or any other alternative
>transport would be to run something like UQWK with all its
>advantages, such as preselecting the articles to be
>retrieved, zipping them all up, and running on the host's
>processor. All that would be needed then is a way of
>coverting the SOUP packet back into a format that speaks
>NNTP to the local host.
If I understood Hardy correctly, porting VSoup (source is GPL) to
Linux would handle this. You could send to the local Sendmail (or
whatever your local MTA is), OR you could go directly to the ISP's
NNTP server. Best of both worlds. BTW, VSoup has filtering with regular
expressions.
>One good reason to build on existing news base software
>(besides that it would save a lot of work) is that it would
>be inherently muti-user in real time, unlike Yarn which I
>don't believe allows two users at once.
I haven't tried it much because I'm afraid it might corrupt the database,
but Yarn (DOS version) will run two sessions in two DOS windows under
Win95. In fact, it will allow the _same_ user to run in two windows
if one is only reading folders (say). I've been careful to only read
in the second session and not add/delete anything. It does make it
handy to paste from a folder to a message in progress. But LIS, I haven't
done it much. Anyone out there who does it regularly?
-rex