Not much recent activity on the trn-users mailing list, but...

[Adrian P. <arp...@uw...>]

I see there's not much recent activity (as in no posts since January 2017)
on the trn-users mailing list.

I just did something, and I wonder whether anyone else has done it before.

I set up a news server on an lxc container on my workstation, and
created newsgroups, initially corresponding to a few mailing lists I
had subscribed too.  It is a very unsociable news server, importing
and exporting nothing.  Just using "mailpost" to turn a few of my
mailing list subscriptions into very private newsgroups.  (I use
"getmail" on another lxc container to feed a procmail script which
sends messages to appropriate aliases I have set up on the news server
container).

trn (trn4), used on my private news container, works well as an
interface for that.  (I have actually allowed access from any other
container on my workstation also).  Some lists give you non-trivial
trees for some discussions.

But I began realizing I could probably skim much of my incoming more
efficiently if I posted it all to even more fake local newsgroups.
That experiment has only just started, though.

Prior to this, I began experimenting with a procmail-driven filter to
generate occasional summaries of mailing list activity for me (number
of postings with various subjects).  That worked reasonably well, but
almost seems like it might be redundant if trn4 really becomes my
primary means of reading mail.  (Replying still needs to be done by
finding the corresponding message on a mail-saving host or container).

All this sort of suggests that maybe trn4 could be adapted to work
directly from a source of email, instead of news.  Although, especially
if you want cross-posting (which I currently do do), there seem to be
advantages to having the news reader forms of the posts as tangible
entities.


Adrian Pepper
arp...@uw...