Hi,
This is getting really helpful! I am sure everyone else is also gaining.
Suresh and others, I am going to run inn for my organisation and we have a
pipe from bharati BT. All resource that I have is a linux server behind a
firewall and good amount of bandwidth. I have not even tied up with any news
provider (or upstream as i just learnt). I will be subscribing to newsgroups
for java, C++ etc. Is it possible to hook up with paid news providers like
uunet or free ones like news://newsgroups.weblogic.com for what I want to
achieve?
I understood what u meant by cleanfeed etc. Thanks a lot.
Regards
Sachin Dole
-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:13 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [LIH] news
Sachin Dole rearranged electrons thusly:
> >> I suggest you compile innd along with the spam filtering system
> 'cleanfeed'.
> I am going to use innd that comes with rhl 6.2
there is also an rpm called 'cleanfeed' in the same distro, iirc - or you
can
download it from any redhat ftp site.
> >> Also have your upstream filter your newsfeed at that level itself.
> what is upstream??? and whats filtering??
upstream - the provider you are purchasing bandwidth from.
bandwidth - you know ;)
filtering - checking for spam, and automatically bouncing it - stuff like
cancel and supersede bombs, excessive multi posting, excessive cross
posting
... read the usenet spam faq a bit - it's at faqs.org somewhere.
you dont do that - your bandwidth consumption will at least double - esp as
lots of spam has binary content, including, perhaps virii and trojans,
which
have to be filtered for as well - especially if your customers use a
browser
like outlook / netscape (both of which have built in newsreaders) to read
their news.
> Whats does this mean?? I know that i have to take newsfeed from someone,
and
> I have my news server running inside my firewall. I will have a lan ip
> address. will it be a problem?
Are you providing for customers, or for just your organization?
If for your organization - just see who you are renting your local
connectivity from - vsnl has news.vsnl.net.in for example. Ask them for a
feed.
-suresh
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