>>I check out the bodies, too.
>>>
>JeffM wrote:
>>Wasn't *lotitas* already mentioned? 8-)
>>
Mark Zenier wrote:
Ugh. Older, with some brains, please.
>
Ah. Another advocate of *in full bloom*.
>[...]you didn't mention what software you are using[...]
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>I've been running Linux for the last 14 years or so.
>The core of the operation is the old CNews news transport software
>that will take any posting placed in the right file directory,
>analyze the headers and file the postings in a News Spool file tree,
>which can be read by any of the old Unix newsreader programs
>that can directly use a news spool with the .overview files.
>Trn 4 and Tin, right now.
>
>Surrounding it is a loose and ever changing collection of Perl and
>Bourne Shell scripts running on more than one computer that can
>bundle up a day's news or, on several news servers, check the list
>of the day's new postings against the stuff previously downloaded
>and fill in the missing ones.
>
OK. So, this isn't just tweaking a newsreader configuration and it's not really a cookie-cutter solution (unless boilerplates are uploaded somewhere with notes).
Ever read "Mote In God's Eye"?
>
No. Maybe I shouldn't have missed that one.
"possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read" --Robert Heinlein
Sort of like a Motie Spaceship.
>Need to change course?, just rebuild the autopilot.
>[. . .]
>It's a hobby hack, serious people would use "leafnode" or "slrnpull".
Alright. So, the answer to the problem is always *Add a layer*.