From fca518aea2ffdb34edb9f11b21b239af6d31012b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: keyboardan Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:08:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merge and remove leafnode.md Merge leafnode.md into netnews.md. The leafnode.md article is suitable to be in netnews.md, despite tilde.club server not having the leafnode executable. Remove leafnode.md . Now only netnews.md file persists. Signed-off-by: keyboardan --- wiki/source/leafnode.md | 8 -------- wiki/source/netnews.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 wiki/source/leafnode.md diff --git a/wiki/source/leafnode.md b/wiki/source/leafnode.md deleted file mode 100644 index 147eb5d..0000000 --- a/wiki/source/leafnode.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Leafnode -category: links ---- - -`leafnode` is a news client suitable for "leaf" nodes, that is nodes that have no downstream feeds. - -[http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/](http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/) diff --git a/wiki/source/netnews.md b/wiki/source/netnews.md index 6a73b54..09c3faf 100644 --- a/wiki/source/netnews.md +++ b/wiki/source/netnews.md @@ -101,3 +101,20 @@ it can also be configured for news. 1. When you click `Send` on your new post, Thunderbird would ask for your Tilde.club username and password (which is the same as the one you use on your [Tilde.club email](email.html)). + + +## News proxies + +### leafnode +[Leafnode](http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/) is a software package +that implements a store & forward NNTP proxy (client and server). It +gives a regular newsreader off-line functionality, merges news +articles from several upstream newsservers for newsreaders that only +support one server well, and avoids duplicate news downloads for a +small LAN with multiple users reading news. + +Leafnode is suitable for “leaf” nodes, that is, nodes that only pull +from other Netnews nodes. + +As of 2026-08-11, `leafnode` is not available as a tilde.club system +executable.