Re: (iso Pythonic code) -- if Usenet allowed a small image embedded in a msg, ...

D <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Colin Macleod wrote:
> 
> > D <[email protected]> wrote in
> > news:[email protected]:
> >>
> >> And regardless, your usenet client is free to implement some kind of
> >> graphics handling. The least you can do is to include a html link to a
> >> graphic if it is necessary.
> >
> > That's not a bad idea. I might try to put that in the usenet web client I'm
> > working on, once I get the basic functionality sorted out.
> >
> > Of course you then have the problem of how to respond to illegal or
> > objectionable images being posted, that needs some thought.
> 
> Another question, since you seem to be one of the guys wise in the ways of
> (computer) science!
> 
> I wonder if you know of any software or script that syncs usenet messages
> from the server to Maildir?
> 
> The reason I am asking is that my newsreader works directly against the
> server, and only caches certain operations. It is fairly fast, but, I
> would ideally like to be able to sync all the news groups I read to local disk
> (in Maildir, since my email client (alpine) supports that) so that I can
> read and respond to them offline, and then send them once I'm online.
> 
> I wonder if Maildir would be capable of "holding" the messages, or if that
> would just be trying to hammer the square peg through the round hole?
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel

IMO it's more like reinventing the wheel.  
Why not just use an offline newsreader?  

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