Re: Play, Want, Bin (27th February 2006)

On 2006-02-27, Chris Whitworth <chris.DELETE.THIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-02-27, The Rev <the_rev_yes_really@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Toby Newman wrote:
On 2006-02-27, The Rev <the_rev_yes_really@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm thinking of moving back to Xnews just because Thunderbird doesn't
have any way of killing crossposts. Thunderbird's got really, really
rubbish filtering and no extensions to improve it, as far as I can see.

You could still use Thunderbird but point it at your own local news
server which does the crosspost filtering for you. i.e. what dekay does.
I don't do that - I let slrn kill crossposts for me.

I looked into setting up a newsgroup server, but it made me cry. Far too
complicated. And it would mean opening up my home network to the outside
world and trusting Telewest not to change my IP address and all that
kind of stuff. Too complicated.

That's because you were looking into setting up a full news node. Leafnode
isn't a full node - it's actually a curious hybrid of server and client: to
other servers, it looks like a client (in that it downloads news and posts
in the same way a client would), but to your client, it looks like a server.
It's dead easy to set up, but you have to remember to set your expiry times
for busy groups (and make sure the filing system you've got it installed on
deals well with large numbers of tiny files) otherwise your Linux box will
collapse into a horrible, wheezing, grinding heap - it got to the point with
a leafnode install I'd setup that it was taking longer to run an expiry than
the time between fetches from the upstream server, which obviously had fairly
unpleasant consequences.

My expirations are done at 4am whilst I sleep. You have made me paranoid
that they are not completing within the 10 minutes between leafnode's
fetches. Maybe my computer undergoes a little civil war at 4:10 every
morning and I never know about it.
I am running a bog standard file system (ext3) whereas I
understand Reisling is the way to go for many small files.

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