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In the PC world people often talk about "offline" newsreaders. These are thingies that are combined reader/news transport monstrosities. With built-in modem programs. Yecchh!
Of course, us Unix Weenie types of human beans use things like
uucp
and, like, nntpd
and set up proper news and mail
transport things like Ghod intended. And then we just use normal
newsreaders.
However, it can sometimes be convenient to do something that's a bit easier on the brain if you have a very slow modem, and you're not really that interested in doing things properly.
A file format called SOUP has been developed for transporting news and mail from servers to home machines and back again. It can be a bit fiddly.
First some terminology:
awk
program), or you
can use Gnus to create the packet with its SOUP commands (O
s and/or G s b; and then G s p) (see section 6.6.4.1 SOUP Commands).
nnsoup
back end as
the native or secondary server.
So you basically have a bipartite system--you use nnsoup
for
reading and Gnus for packing/sending these SOUP packets.
6.6.4.1 SOUP Commands Commands for creating and sending SOUP packets 6.6.4.2 SOUP Groups A back end for reading SOUP packets. 6.6.4.3 SOUP Replies How to enable nnsoup
to take over mail and news.
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