Usenet Setup

Some information about my usenet setup


In addition to my newsreader (er, currently slrn running in cygwin, despite my Xnews info on this website;-)), I use Hamster to pull news from two different newsfeeds (to unsure a virtually complete feed). Hamster runs as a local news-server, so I then set my news client to pull news from the localhost. As with mail, I use a fairly simple filter to eliminate spam, excessive cross-posting etc., so that I don't have to waste bandwidth downloading it. Inbetween Hamster and my newsreader, I use a couple of utilities to clean up incoming, and outgoing news:

Korrnews operates on outgoing mail, and does a few things like adding headers, correcting formatting, allowing easy addition of nicely laid out footnotes etc.

Morver acts on incoming mail, and does similar tasks to Korrnews - one useful addition is the ability to automatically snip quoted text in top-posted messages - i.e. the text below the new material is automatically removed, and marked as such.
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