Categorised links for the slrn newsreader
On this page, you will find links to more webpages and resources that may be of interest to users of the slrn newsreader. The information contained within the slrn tarball such as FAQs, manuals etc is not covered on this page but rather "third party" offerings. The links are categorised as follows:
- Mailing Lists There are two public mailing lists for slrn.
- Usenet Resources: Newsgroups that feature discussion about slrn, its development and use.
- slrn Documentation: Setup guides, improved documentation and more.
- Macros: Where to find some great macros for slrn.
- External Scripts and Programs: Programs, scripts and utilities that can be used with slrn.
- Patches: Some patches to apply against the svn slrn.
If you have an slrn page which could be featured here or if you have found a dead link please be sure to send an email to Andrew Strong who maintains this page.
Mailing Lists
- slrn announce: The slrn-announce mailing list is used to inform slrn's users of new releases, important bugfixes or major changes of the website. These announcements are also posted to slrn-user, so there is no need to subscribe to both lists.
- slrn-user: The slrn-user mailing list is open for discussion of the use, development and extension of the slrn newsreader. slrn-related announcements are also forwarded to this list, so there is no need to subscribe both slrn-admin and slrn-user. For questions about slrn that might be of broad interest, please use the appropriate newsgroup (which is in most cases news.software.readers).
Usenet Resources
- news.software.readers: This newsgroup deals with all kinds of newsreaders, so please put "slrn" somewhere into the "Subject:" header line to make your posting easy to find for other slrn users. The newsgroup is read by both slrn's author and current maintainer John E. Davis as well as others who have many years of experience with slrn.
- alt.lang.s-lang: This newsgroup deals with the s-lang macro language that can be used to extend and customize slrn. Discussions on macros for slrn tend to be cross-posted into news.software.readers.
- de.comm.software.newsreader: This newsgroup corresponds to news.software.readers, but is intended for discussions in German language.
slrn Documentation
- slrn Documentation: The Slrn Documentation Project, where official and unofficial slrn documentation is being developed. The project welcomes the assistance of anybody who would like to rewrite sections of the documentation or make additions.
- Setting up the newsreader slrn under Linux: A basic setup guide for slrn under Linux written by Andrew Strong.
- Introduction to Usenet News and the slrn Newsreader: This extensive document gives a great inroduction to Usenet and slrn. Originally written for trn by Jonathan Bell it was rewritten to cover slrn by Sylvain Robitaille.
- Configuring slrn for BeOS: A series of articles put together by Scot Hacker.
- Building slrn on Mac OS X: A brief note and patch by Felix Schüller.
- Sample setup: slrn with Windows (German): A brief description on how Michael Klingbeil ran slrn on a Windows 2000 box.
- Installing slrn and leafnode on MacOS X: Step by step instructions on how to install both programs from sources on Mac OS X (Jaguar). Written by Jens Kutilek.
- HOWTO use slrn and slrnpull (Italian): Describes how to install, configure and use slrn for offline newsreading with slrnpull. Also includes an Italian translation of the official FAQ. Written by Alessandro Airaghi.
Macros
- Troy's Home Page : slrn Howto : A superb collection of quality macros tested against the current svn slrn.
- jbn's S-Lang macros: Some really useful macros written by J.B. Nicholson-Owens.
- automatic scoring: This macro set provides a basic implementation of "adaptive scoring". It automatically generates scorefile entries based on what articles you read or replied to and comes with a simple script that automatically purges old entries. Written by Robin Sommer.
- tsca's s-lang page: Quite a few macros for slrn as well as some related macros for the editor jed. Written by Tomasz 'tsca' Sienicki.
- Emmanuele Bassi's page on slrn contains some useful macros, including GnuPG support (sign and verify articles using the GNU Privacy Guard or PGP) and a macro that allows you to change your identity depending on the newsgroup in a flexible way.
External Scripts and Programs
- Cleanscore If you heavily use slrn's scoring capabilities, your scorefile can soon become large and confusing, so you will want to remove expired entries on a regular basis. This perl script, written by Felix Schüller can be used to purge expired entries automatically, e.g. by calling it from cron.daily. The script can be also be found in the
contrib/directory of slrn tarball. - [Howto] Setup and use Leafnode-2 with the newsreader slrn: A guide written by Andrew Strong for the Ubuntu Forums that describes in great detail how to setup slrn with the NNTP Proxy server Leafnode. Andrew rewrote the guide to cater for Slackware Linux.
- slrn and PGP: A perl script and a set of macros by René Scholz to use PGP 2.6.* with slrn.
- slrnconf: A graphical frontend for the configuration of slrn, written in Perl/Tk by Torsten Schoenfeld.
- newsq: A program that allows you to view and edit postings that are still in the outgoing queue. Works with slrnpull or NNTP servers that keep a batch file for outgoing messages (like INN/rpost). Written in C by Tony Houghton.
- spellutils: The spellutils package by Byrial Jensen contains the program newsbody, which isolates the article headers from the body, runs a filter program (e.g. a spell checker) on the body and merges the parts again.
- t-prot: A perl script that does its best to fix misformatted messages. The distribution includes a macro that can be used to call t-prot automatically on each article. Written by Jochen Striepe.
Patches
- slrn patches and ubuntu repository/packages: Thomas Wiegner develops several patches on this page that work with the current svn slrn. The mst prominent is the minimal multipart patch which adds minimal multipart support to slrn. Text type parts are displayed correctly binary and other unsupported parts are hidden.
- Score Color Patch: Rudy Taraschi wrote this patch which is an enhancement to slrn that allows you to assign different colors to arbitrary score ranges. It has been running solidly for about four years and is described in some detail on his web site.
- Jurriaan's patch set: Jurriaan W Kalkman wrote a bunch of patches, both, for slrn and for slrnpull. The most prominent of them are the ability to download articles from multiple groups in parallel, making full use of the available bandwidth, and "persistent scoring", i.e. the possibility to score articles based on their ancestors in the thread.
