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- From: weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert)
- Subject: Re: news reading program that works with a file of saved articles
- In-Reply-To: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov's message of Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10: 18:11 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:29:14 GMT
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- kpc> (but if you _do_ want to start hacking, modifying a newsreader to do
- kpc> virtual newsgroups would be great. (and probably not too hard in
- kpc> gnus.))
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- If I understand correctly what you mean by "virtual newsgroup," then there
- is no need to hack. Gnus can be made to read from any directory that has
- the struture of a news spool area, so you could easily use it to read your
- old news. Note that each article has to be in a single file, however.
-
- I used this scheme for a while to keep old information, but switched to VM
- instead as my information browser. My gripes with the gnus-based strategy
- were (i) unless one modifies the code, reading an article marks it for
- deletion (hardly what one wants to do with archived information),
- (ii) No easy way of searching through a whole pseudo-newsgroup (i.e.,
- cluster of information) unless one uses grep, and (iii) results in too many
- small files (on a large disk the minimum filesize causes you to use quite
- some diskspace).
-
- I am not completely satisfied with the VM based approach either, so I would
- love to hear from other people how they deal with archiving and retrieving
- of acquired information.
-
- Cheers, Thomas.
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