On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, D wrote:
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> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Colin Macleod wrote:
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>> D <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]:
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>>> 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
>
>
And I received an answer in another group. The answer is leafnode.org.
This does (based on a glance at the documentation) exactly what I was
looking for! =)
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