Re: [Noffle-users] Re: 1.1.4: problems marking newsgroups for fetching

[Mirko L. <mir...@we...>]

Miernik wrote:
> > 4. SLRN comes with it's own simple server SLRNPULL. Do you use noffle
> > and SLRNPULL at the same time?
> 
> No. BTW: could you shortly compare SLRNPULL with NOFFLE? What does one 
>     has that the other does not?

SLRNPULL 0.9.7.4:
- No local NNTP server. Your newsreader must be able to read directly
  from a traditional news spool directory. Some newsreaders can't sort
  articles into threads or find parent posts when reading from a local
  spool. SLRN can do all that, IIRC.
- No local groups.
- Just one upstream server, not multiple ones.
- "slrnpull -post" posts articles but doesn't fetch new articles from
  the upstream server. Noffle does not support a similar feature.
- There aren't different fetch modes, like Noffle's "full", "thread" or
  "over" mode.
- A killfile (similar to the neat scorefile of SLRN) can be applied
  before fetching articles. I don't know whether SLRNPULL evaluates the
  newsgroups' overview (like Noffle) or whether it requests the headers
  of each article (like SLRN). There are pros and cons to both methods.
- No automatic subscriptions. But it's easy to hack a S-Lang macro if
  you use SLRN.
- No transparent mode like Noffle's online mode.