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looking for a news reader which can let me store forever all the messages.
do someone knows how to help me?

BigSquash
 
BigSquash said:
looking for a news reader which can let me store forever all the messages.
do someone knows how to help me?
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News messages eventually get deleted from your ISP's news server no matter
what newsreader you use. Rather than worrying about downloading and storing
all the newsgroup messages locally, why not just rely on Google Groups to do
the job for you: http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q=

Regards,
Ian.
 
Ionizer said:
Looks interesting- it's almost as if they are trying to create a
web-based newsreader.
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Actually, it's a direct competitor to the YahooGroups email lists.
 
looking for a news reader which can let me store forever all the messages.
do someone knows how to help me?

BigSquash
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One of the most popular personal news servers is Hamster. Mail is
downloaded via Hamster from the remote news server and stored forever (or
per your criteria) locally. Your news reader of choice then connects to
Hamster (instead of the remote news server) and pulls in the messages for
reading.

Essentially:

Remote server -> Hamster (via port 119) -> News Reader (via port 1119)

Hamster is highly configurable and has very powerful scripting ability.

Hamster Classic
http://www.tglsoft.de/misc/hamster_en.htm

Do some Google searching if you need further help setting it up. Or visit:

news.software.readers
hamster.en.config
hamster.en.misc
hamster.en.scripts
 
looking for a news reader which can let me store forever all the messages.
do someone knows how to help me?

BigSquash
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If someone places X-No-Archive: Yes the post does not get saved.
You can use Hamster
Pricelessware description follows:
<quote>
Hamster
(Freeware) (open source)
OS:
Languages: English
Description: Hamster is a local server for news and mail. It's a
windows-32-bit-program. It allows the use of multiple news- and mailserver
and combines them to one mail- and newsserver for the news/mail-client. It
load faster than a normal newsreader because many threads can run
simultaneous. It contains scorefile for news and mail, a build-in script
language, the GUI allows translation to other languages, it can be used in
a network and that's not all ... Author: Juergen Haible; Thomas G. Liesner
and many other Company: -- Home Page:
http://www.tglsoft.de/misc/hamster_en.htm download: v 2.0.0.1 (2003-02-19)
(Hamster.2.0.0.1.zip) (2.1MB)
http://hamster.arcornews.de/tgl/hamster/Hamster.2.0.0.1.zip (desc. rev.:
2003-12-30
</quote>
It works well. A guy in another NG has been saving messages for at least
six years.
 
News messages eventually get deleted from your ISP's news server no matter
what newsreader you use.
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So what ? A worthwhile newsreader will allow one to keep posts
forever. What the original poster asked for. I have news posts going
back almost ten years. I don't need Google, or the internet, to read
them.

Regards, John.

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BigSquash said:
looking for a news reader which can let me store forever all the messages.
do someone knows how to help me?
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I guess I don't understand the question. It seems to me that any
offline newsreader would do the job.
 
I guess I don't understand the question. It seems to me that any
offline newsreader would do the job.
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Partly correct. Some offline newsreaders will delete read posts when
they get new ones. The better newsreaders have "keep" capability
so that purging a newsgroup doesn't delete everything. The posts
considered important enough to "keep" are kept.

Regards, John.

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Are there any newsreader clients that can work with google, as the newsserver,
and add the traditional advantage of non-Web based newsreaders:
a) Quicker access to index of the posts and the posts text themselves,
without using a browser.
b) The ability to track what you have read, and what is new in a group,
so you do not have to confront a list of posts containing ones you already
read? This is usually done by some numbering system of posts on a news server,
and tracking these numbers in your client's newsrc file. Perhaps this could be
done by using date/time of google articles as the tracking IDs ?

I thought I saw something like this being developed. I am fairly sick of my
ISP's news service, which does group downloads at intervals from a commercial
news server (newsfeeds.com). The systems does not work well.
 
I like Gravity. It's not in development anymore but it is still the best.
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/
http://gravity.tbates.org/super.html

You can download messages and read them offline, and it has filters, and search
capability, along with other features.

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A man said:
I like Gravity. It's not in development anymore but it is still
the best.
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/
http://gravity.tbates.org/super.html
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It was already a mature app, but it /is/ still in development. Some
functionality was lost as some proprietary code had to be stripped
before making the source freely available, so latest versions may not
do all that your v2.6 is currently doing, but they are working on it.
Info is at Tom Bates' site above, and the sourceforge project page is
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/>.
 
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